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After downloading Mountain Lion from the app store using my real Mac, I moved the installer to external storage. But I found that the app store will not download the new installer unless it finds the old installer. Clicking the Download button only displays a message "You have updates for other...

I've had the base model RMBP 15 for a week. A very nice upgrade from a 4 year old Dell Core 2 Duo.

Yes, it works. It's automatic and it's in the background. Anyone can use iostat to see what is happening on each drive. Where have you seen it reported that it doesn't work? Don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question, I don't want to know. On second thought, maybe I do want to know, so I can...

Thanks Neil for writing a great tutorial! It's exactly how I did it a few days ago. I started documenting my steps for the benefit of all, but now I won't have to. Thanks again for picking up that ball and running with it. I'd like to find a way to do it without relying on having an...

try diskutil cs delete A7981AD1-31FC-446F-9D16-0F32FB9A6EAB The UUID is for the Logical Volume Group.

Clover isn't necessary at all. I just finished setting up a Fusion drive that boots with Chimera. The steps are essentially the same as the RAID-0 guide found here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/lion-desktop-guides/32724-lion-10-7-2-raid-0-tonymacx86-tools-chimera.html except instead of creating a...

More details emerge: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/achieving-fusion-with-a-service-training-doc-ars-tears-open-apples-fusion-drive/ This part fits some of the discussion in this thread: "Fusion Drive is not meant to be a feature that appeals to the propeller-head geek. The kind of...

I could be wrong but I believe the reason Patrick Stein aka jollyjinx turned off spotlight indexing was only so that it would not interfere with his testing. Notice that in his blog post on tumblr, part 1 is about setting up the fusion drive while parts 2 and 3 are about testing its behavior...

Article: Apple's New iMacs Have Ivy Bridge Desktop CPUs There is no Momentus XT drive that has 128 GB of NAND and 1 or 3 TB of platters. Also, Apple specifically said they're doing it in software. More information: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6406/understanding-apples-fusion-drive

My 10.8.0 install app (which I made sure to make a copy to keep before re-downloading Mountain Lion from the app store) is 4,370,518,892 bytes (4.37 GB on disk) and has a creation date of July 5, 2012 2:14 AM My 10.8.2 install app is 4,396,617,824 bytes (4.4 GB on disk) and has a creation...

I might try installing ML this weekend. H61N, i3-2105, HD3000.

I plan to move in my CustoMac Mini 2011 build with Gigabyte H61N-USB3 and Core i3-2105. I'll upgrade it later, after the smoke clears and the dust settles on a suitable Ivy Bridge mini-ITX build for Mountain Lion. I bought Silverstone's 500W fully modular power supply that is 140mm deep, which...

Apparently the white Prodigy is in stock, but the black Prodigy, which I pre-ordered over a month ago, is not. Next week, they say.

Ars Technica reports it is confirmed in the Mountain Lion gold master. Older Macs with 32-bit graphics drivers have been left behind, due to the end of 32-bit kext support. The list of Macs that cannot run Mountain Lion has not changed. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/co ... ood-night/

Yes, popping audio is common. Apparently it has something to do with the audio chip going to sleep to conserve power when it is silent and popping when it wakes up to play a sound.