Apple: OS X Mountain Lion sells three million copies in four days

Three million copies of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion have been sold in four days, making the recently launched OS the most successful release in Apple's history. With more than 200 innovative new features, Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system and is available through the Mac App Store as an upgrade to Lion or Snow Leopard users for $19.99 (CAD). 

“Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. 

Mountain Lion features include the all new Messages app, Notification Center, system-wide Sharing, Facebook integration*, Dictation*, AirPlay Mirroring and Game Center. iCloud integration makes it easy to set up your Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Reminders and Notes, and keep everything, including iWork documents, up to date across all your devices. For more information or to download Mountain Lion visit apple.ca/osx/specs. Additional features such as Dictation and Facebook Integration are coming to Canada in an upcoming update.

Hard Candy Cases Introduces the Hard Shell Case for Apple 15” MacBook Pro Retina

The MacBook Pro with Retina Display is a powerful and gorgeous notebook which proud owners are going to want to protect and preserve. It also tends to run a bit hot, specially when crunching video or playing games. Hard shell cases like the Hard Candy case is a perfect complement that dresses up the sleek notebook, protects it from bumps and scrapes and serves as a barrier  from the hear when using it on your lap.

Hard Candy Cases debuts a premier Hard Shell Case for Apple’s new MacBook Pro 15” with Retina Display. Hard Candy’s Hard Shell Case provides users with eye-popping color and five times the protection in a form fitting shell that is easy to take on and off.  In addition to the Hard Shell Case for the Apple 15” MacBook Pro with Retina Display, the Hard Shell Case is available for the Apple 11” MacBook Air and the Apple 13” MacBook Air.

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Breaking: Apple to ship OS X Mountain Lion tomorrow

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple has confirmed through its third quarter earning's call that the next version of OS X (10.8) Mountain Lion will be available tomorrow, July 25th. The update will cost $19.99 and will be a digital download from the Mac App Store. Check out our primer on OS X Mountain Lion and see if your Mac is ready for the upgrade.

The Apple Beat: A Mountain Lion Primer

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

We are a few days away from seeing Apple's OS X Mountain Lion released. As noted in this year's WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference), Mountain Lion will be unleashed in July which should be anytime now. Here's a primer on what to expect from Mountain Lion, which machines can run it and how to transition as smoothly as possible.

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