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

Post by ZachWick » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 2:22 PM UTC

X-Istence wrote: post #173

Zenst wrote: post #101

The whole free OS which can only run upon hardware they have already sold you is reminding me of how IBM used to sell AIX and moved into giving it away free as it would only run upon hardware only they made and sold you. Question is though, what about support. You have a 3 year old Mac of some flavour and upgrade to this OS, what about issues you may have. ANother aspect would be that by in effect making this level o…

Even if your Mac is no longer supported or on Apple care you can always book an appointment with the genius bar to get questions answered regarding setting up email accounts or if something is malfunctioning. Apple also sells one-on-one sessions if you are so inclined or need longer sessions than what the genius bar can help you with.

Post by parasubvert » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:19 PM UTC

brymaster wrote: post #314

parasubvert wrote: post #267

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This has been discussed before. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/mountain-lion-airplay-m... Tried Airparrot - quality was terrible in comparison.

Year old review (software improves) and you may have missed this: http://cdn.arstechnica.net//wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Scree...

Post by brymaster » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 7:59 PM UTC

parasubvert wrote: post #363

brymaster wrote: post #314

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Year old review (software improves) and you may have missed this: http://cdn.arstechnica.net//wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Scree...

Too much work for my mom, thanks.

Post by cenhyperion » Thu, Oct 24, 2013, 6:28 PM UTC

danudey wrote: post #293

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They don't get oohs and aahs because exactly the same thing has been possible via google docs for several years. It's impressive, yes, but not groundbreaking.

The quality of document you can get from Pages vs. Google Docs is night and day. Google Docs is a barebones office suite with an awful UI and live sync. iWork is a semi-professional ('prosumer?') home/school/office suite which now has synchronization as well.

Post by ndrake » Thu, Oct 24, 2013, 11:51 PM UTC

ndrake wrote: post #168

Anyone know what the JVM situation is on Mavericks? Does Apple still provide a version of 1.6 or would I be required to upgrade to Oracle's 1.7 install?