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A boot to the face of Microsoft.
Not only will Apple get some good press for this (barring any major technical snafu) but they'll glean some additional community goodwill and drastically reduce the number of legacy OS X versions in the wild.
A boot to the face of Microsoft.
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.
The problem was with Mountain Lion, because it required 64-bit EFI (or something) which older models don't have.
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. They had trouble getting people to buy Windows 8 when it was $40.
Do you have a citation for that? I can't seem to find any sales information on the $40 promo.
The promotion has long since ended.
A boot to the face of Microsoft.
Very interested to see if Microsoft will follow suit.
What on earth compelled Nokia to launch their new Windows-tablet on the same day?
Even for free, I'm weary of upgrading my OS. Too scared to take a performance hit.