Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

I was looking forward to ML until I read the supported hardware and found that my 2006 Mac Pro won't be supported. This has happened in the past with other Macs, but this is the first time it has bit me.<p>My Pro is perfect for me, I have it maxed at 32 GB of memory, dual optical drives, and 4TB of local disk. Quad 2.66GHz cores is more than enough for me.<p>I understand that things like display Airplay mirroring depend on newer CPUs/GPUs, but ML should still be supported, just with fewer features.<p>And yes, I know this is a 6 year old system. But it's still a good solid system with a long life ahead of it. I'll keep running Lion on it until something dies (system board?) that's irreplaceable.

Just bought a new Macbook Pro and have recently gotten my first taste of Lion. Two words: kernel panic.<p>Hoping for a stability boost on this one. No way my entire overpowered system should crash from running a browser, text edit, and Skype.

Can anyone comment if airplay is disabled on pre 2011 macs? I'm going to be royally pissed if airplay is disabled because I'm missing some BS drm chip. Hopefully the era of "Jailbreaking" macs has not started.

Anybody know if Messages has improved? The beta I'm using is buggy as hell.

Still filing some radars against this, including the lingering text formatting issue in Mail.<p>If this follows the typical pattern there will be some sys update right after public release.

Something very odd is happening at Apple. Either there is a massive shortage of developers (unlikely) or developers have been moved to a new project (AppleTV ?).<p>Because Mountain Lion and iOS6 are by far the most underwhelming updates yet in terms of features.