Still no fix for dropped Wi-Fi after waking up from sleep... I spent 15 minutes (really, I timed it) this evening closing and opening my MBP's lid until I could <i>finally</i> connect to my wireless router (which is literally 7 inches to the right of my MBP).<p>If you don't know what I'm talking about, read this: <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/06/lion-wi-fi-problems-solution-mac/" rel="nofollow">http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/06/lion-wi-fi-problems-solution-...</a> - About 300 people have posted on that topic, it's really widespread yet it hasn't been fixed after 15 months. You can also google "lion wireless problems" to see literally thousands of post on online forums about this problem.<p>And a good news to all fellow iOS users: This "feature" (read "cancer") has spread to iOS 6 betas as well.
I truly love my MacBook Pro from late 2008: "pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hands-unless-I-get-a-new-machine" love. But I still get that anxious knot in my gut when thinking about upgrading OS X, for one reason: when problems are discovered and reported, Apple will simply hang you out to dry.<p>Specifically, that machine had known issues with the GPU and dual boot was spotty because the fans would not run in Windows unless you manually started them in OS X. For YEARS, users begged for help and got nothing from Apple, and in some cases, Apple even actively FOUGHT them (e.g. <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/19/blogger-victorious-over-apple-in-small-claims-case-on-nvidia-gpu-failures/" rel="nofollow">http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/19/blogger-victorious-over-...</a>). All this to avoid looking like they were anything less than perfect.<p>I know - waaaaa!. It's still an awesome machine (and OS - I love and hate all platforms in one way or another), but it's a shame that Apple has earned the reputation that Jobs so famously put a face on when he felt personally challenged over these complaints: it's not broken, you are using it wrong, get over it - it's just a machine. It's a tough position to put the consumer in when you are a company that expects that customer to cede so much control in the name of "trust our authority".
Upgraded the day it was released, last few days I feel that you could cook an egg on my MBP after 2 hours of working (nothing fancy, IDE and browsers open - no heavy GPU usage). Do more people feel that 10.8.x overheats the machine?
10.8.2 is out in pre-release: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/23/apple-mountain-lion-10-8-2-developer-build/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/23/apple-mountain-lion-10-8-...</a>
I never had this problem when I was using Snow Leopard, but since I've updgraded to Mountain Lion, every time I wake up my computer, the Wifi freezes. What are developers doing to fix this problem. I'm getting tired of force rebooting in order to connect.
Does anyone know if this fixes missing icons? My MBP 2011 will come up with the wifi or other random icons hidden (I can still click on where they 'would' be and it'll show me the wifi networks, for instance)...