downgrading from Mountain lion to Lion

hey guys, I want to downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion on my 2012 macbook pro..BUT I've already made a bootcamp partition for windows 7. If I can downgrade, would it affect my windows 7 partition? Also, any steps on the process ?

 

There should be no reason to downgrade... but if you just format the OSX partition and install OSX, I don't see how that would affect your Windows partition.

 

Nor would it be possible if the machine came with ML pre-installed on it.

 

its for the battery life, there's been a few articles already but I've noticed it as well, much better battery life in lion. My computer did some with mountain lion though and i've seen some how to's on how to go back to Lion... is it still possible? I know I would lose my data on mountain lion but its a farily new comp so its ok, just worried about my windows 7 partition

 

most people have said Battery life is fine on 10.8.1 ... that much preferable than going back to 10.7.

 

OS X 10.8.2 has been released to developers as well so Apple will be rolling out that update soon. Either way, sticking with ML and waiting for an update is a better option that rolling back to an OS that didn't come on your system. Unless the battery life has been drastically reduced (i.e. greater than a realistic 2 hour drop), waiting is the best solution. I guess I am lucky as ML hasn't affected my 2011 MBA's battery life.

 

I would wait for 10.8.2 as kornchild2002 has suggested. Although it is possible to downgrade back to Lion, there will probably be minor glitches with bootcamp. If I'm not mistaken, Mountain Lion has a newer version of Bootcamp than Lion.

I haven't necessarily had issues with battery life, but I have had issues with long restart and shut down times.

Thanks,
Gabe

 

My restart / start times have gone under 10 seconds (sometimes it is almost instant), so it is beating Windows 7 right now. I had the 'circle of death' issue initially, but now the shut down times are usually very fast as well barring some exceptions. I have had freeze ups in ML like lion, but the overall upgrade experience was more calibrated than moving from SL to Lion, where start up times really went up (15 seconds more on an HDD for me). I might be crass for saying it, but perhaps Lion was the Vista to the ML!

I do have to say that now I am on an SSD, so perhaps ML is more optimized for it?!

 

Anyone know if the bootcamp windows application has been fixed for Windows 8 yet? Would that fix be coming with 10.8.2 or do they handle bootcamp stuff separately?

 

Like a lot of people have already suggested, waiting for 10.8.2 would be THE best thing to do. I had some issues with 10.8, nothing major though. I was getting a few freezes... about two a week, especially in Safari, Firefox and iTunes, while running them all at once (which I do almost all the time). Sometimes, when I clicked on a new tab, or tried to switch between apps, my MBP 15 (late 2011) would freeze for a few seconds. But then Apple rolled out 10.8.1, and ever since things have drastically improved- no freezes, much smoother scrolling and great battery life. I am actually surprised that so many people are facing battery issues. I am sure Apple will fix it in 10.8.2.

 

I have no problems using the release preview version of win 8, though I havent installed yet the rtm version

 

the first person whom i heard want to downgrade it, any major issue that you encountered?