Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free

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Post by jdmitch » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:28 PM UTC

Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free
blogs.barrons.com

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Post by mpg33 » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:32 PM UTC

s w e e t

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Post by ics » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:35 PM UTC

If you're too busy to read the whole article or watch the keynote, also note that you can upgrade directly from Snow Leopard or later. They listed the hardware models which will take it as well– the 2007 Mac Minis and MacBook Pros are supposedly good to go.

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Post by arrrg » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:36 PM UTC

ics wrote: post #3

If you're too busy to read the whole article or watch the keynote, also note that you can upgrade directly from Snow Leopard or later. They listed the hardware models which will take it as well– the 2007 Mac Minis and MacBook Pros are supposedly good to go.

Apple is all about that planned obsolescence, right!

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Post by jared314 » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:40 PM UTC

ics wrote: post #3

If you're too busy to read the whole article or watch the keynote, also note that you can upgrade directly from Snow Leopard or later. They listed the hardware models which will take it as well– the 2007 Mac Minis and MacBook Pros are supposedly good to go.

While they may be good to go, I still like waiting a week to upgrade apple products. They do occasionally break things important to my workflow. The last one for me was VirtualBox support along with the Xcode commandline tools. While workarounds and patches appear fairly quickly, it is prudent not to put myself out of action, potentially for days or weeks, if I can avoid it.

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Post by panacea » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:40 PM UTC

A boot to the face of Microsoft.

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Post by Pxtl » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

panacea wrote: post #6

A boot to the face of Microsoft.

Yup. They had trouble getting people to buy Windows 8 when it was $40.

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Post by anologwintermut » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

arrrg wrote: post #4

ics wrote: post #3

If you're too busy to read the whole article or watch the keynote, also note that you can upgrade directly from Snow Leopard or later. They listed the hardware models which will take it as well– the 2007 Mac Minis and MacBook Pros are supposedly good to go.

Apple is all about that planned obsolescence, right!

That argument usually applied to iOS an their practices about non easily user repairable hardware.

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Post by iambateman » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

ics wrote: post #3

If you're too busy to read the whole article or watch the keynote, also note that you can upgrade directly from Snow Leopard or later. They listed the hardware models which will take it as well– the 2007 Mac Minis and MacBook Pros are supposedly good to go.

Didn't Lion not support 2008 models? I think it's cool, and unusual, that they can now upgrade to Mavericks.

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Post by arrrg » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

anologwintermut wrote: post #8

arrrg wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple is all about that planned obsolescence, right!

That argument usually applied to iOS an their practices about non easily user repairable hardware.

I’ve heard it made plenty times in reference to OS X (also iOS where they are really pushing the boundaries of the hardware to bring it to old devices). Every time a new version comes out, actually.