OS X Mavericks Now Availaible

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

As of right now...

jgriffith · Posted: Oct 22, 2013 11:26 am Post subject:

And free right? Anything to talk about with that release?

I guess the partners had a good year, we are all getting an ipad air when they come out.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Lots of backend improvements. Memory use, battery life, processing optimizations, etc.

There are a handful of frontend items, but this one is more about the nuts and bolts - you know the stuff that matters.

Really like the iPad Air. Not going to get one, but it's damn nice. What was more surprising was the iPad mini getting the same internals as the Air.

I can tell you that I will be replacing my aging Dell Precision Desktop unit (6 years old) with either a MBP15 or MBP13 very soon. The MBP13 is an absolute beast for that price.

STPHNSN23 · Guest

so... i have a 2007 macbook, 1 gig of memory. will this new os work on my hardware? i couldn't even download the latest itunes so i could sync my new iphone 5s on my macbook with the operating system i have now (leopard i think?).

edit: well, stuff. http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ looks like i need to upgrade my hardware, which i knew. i just don't want to buy a new laptop right now.

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

STPHNSN23, nope. Requires 2gb of memory and an existing copy of 10.6.8 or later.

And I'll be getting the 15" mbp once I decide which processor to go with.

jjaszkow · Posted: Oct 24, 2013 12:44 pm Post subject:

Upgraded to Mavericks yesterday. Why did Apple decide that switching the locations of "Open Link in New Tab" and "Open Link in New Window" was a good idea? While it's now the same as all of the other major browsers, the change is really annoying.

Overall, pretty happy with Mavericks so far.

nmballa · Posted: Oct 28, 2013 2:07 pm Post subject:

Downloaded and installed. Haven't really seen any difference.

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

I haven't been paying much attention lately...what is broken with Mavericks? Is this totally going to bork my super ancient 2007 MBP? Laughing

So far I've briefly skimmed over these:
-iWork has been "updated"
-some WiFi issues
-sporadic gmail issues (why this would be an issue I'm not sure...)

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

iWork I have but I don't use, but from what I can tell they have just made it more "pretty" which I can only imagine is to further it towards a final destination where it will be converged with the iOS version.

I have had any wifi issues on either the '09 iMac or the '12 MBA13.

Gmail doesn't work very well in the stock Mail app. Not that it ever did! I prefer the web interface for it anyhow.

Those aside, between the two computers I haven't noticed any issues. It wasn't a very front-facing update, so other than a few small things (like folder tagging) I haven't really noticed any difference between ML and Mavs (probably a good thing).

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

Not a Mavericks issue, but still...

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Procedure when getting a new ext drive (be it a USB stick or 3tb hdd):

Open Disk Utility (or Explorer/Disk Management on Win)
Select new drive
ERASE and reformat as FAT32
PROFIT!!!!

Laughing