Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

Post by polarix » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:01 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #63

joejohnson wrote: post #56

I am so happy to hear that OS X Mavericks will fix fullscreen apps across multiple displays!

How was it ever possible that this was broken in the first place ? Incredible. Stupefying.

Post by RexRollman » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:09 PM UTC

robomartin wrote: post #64

I really hope iCloud can be disabled in OSX-M. As far as I am concerned iCloud is a disaster. It causes all manner of data loss on iDevices, generally without the user having a choice. For example, my wife lost her entire calendar -all events- just for turning off calendar synchronization. All events had been originally entered through her phone. Somehow iCloud decided to delete anything that was also stored in the c…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:17 PM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #19

I'm kind of surprised and amused that they chose the name of an old Ubuntu release (October 2010): http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/

Post by binarycrusader » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

ipostonthisacc wrote: post #45

Somewhat more technical information found 2 links deep on Apple site http://images.apple.com/osx/preview/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_...

  OS X was the first operating system to ship as a single
  install that could boot into either a 32-bit or 64-bit
  kernel, either of which could run 32-bit and 64-bit
  applications at full native performance. OS X now
  exclusively uses a 64-bit kernel, but it continues to run
  both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

Post by stray » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:51 PM UTC

joyeuse6701 wrote: post #59

alex_doom wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the next releases are all California surf spots, I'm all for it.

I'd be more excited if they used fictitious navy pilot call signs, maverick, goose, iceman, merlin... Who's with me?