Mountain Lion OS - what do we think??? And a plea for moral support!

[AnonymousBird]

I am on Snow Leopard on my Mac, bought nearly 3 years ago. I see that Mountain Lion is on sale for £13.99, so am tempted to upgrade to get all the whizzy new stuff, and in particular, get icloud usage between the Mac and my iphone

Obvious pitfalls?? Have established that Office 2008 is compatible (apparently). I've backed up all my photos just in case... Itunes and all my usual set ups for Safari, Mail, contacts etc etc I assume will all work on Mountain Lion....

What else to worry about (unnecessarily probably) before I take the plunge? These things always make me nervous, I have visions of all my carefully collated stuff just vanishing into the ether never to be seen again.

I have a new printer, not installed (literally arrived last night). Am I best off installing it AFTER the upgrade or before, again, am convinced that it will work fine on current set up and then be unduly complicated to get it re-installed to new operating system...

In short, HELP! Someone hold my hand please?!

TIA

It depends on what software you are using.

Back when I hastily upgraded the thing which I didn't realise (but maybe I should have) was that it broke my installation of Parallels. Given I use it daily it was a big issue for me.

So this time I'm waiting for software manufacturers to have time to have figured out the issues before plunging. That said there' not that much in Mountain Lion I really need.

If you are just using Office, mail and Internet then you should be fine.

I use it for Office, Mail, Calendar, Internet, Photos and Itunes mostly. Standard Mac based stuff, no real "extras".

Thanks for replying.

I haven't gone for Mountain Lion yet - I have a MacBook Pro and DH got an iMac about a month before ML came out,which are both on Lion. I also have two iMacs at work, both on Lion. I will wait a bit and google 'Mountain Lion problems' before I do anything.

My MacBook and one of the work iMacs were both upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion without major problems, but in both cases I had to reinstall printers, so I'd leave the printer till after.

I had Leopard on my home Mac and then had to upgrade through Snow Leopard to Lion in May in order to get the cloud synching of contacts / calendar etc to work to the iPad which my husband reads the paper on uses.

I put it off for ages because I was exepcting Trouble. But it was OK, printer OK too. I also got an iPhone at the same time so I could have updated calendar with me at all times and that's been really useful.

I think you often only get bad reviews on user forums so you get a slightly twisted picture.

better - thank you, your post encourages me that all may not be doom and gloom. And yes, I think what you say - that for the vast majority of people it is straightforward and those are the ones you obviously don't hear/read about - is very true.

I really want the whole cloud syncing thing, that is what is really driving this for me and £13 seems a relatively small price to pay to get that!