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

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

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Post by Zenst »

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 of OS available to all supported models out there warranty wise, they make life in supporting systems a little bit easier and very likely will drop support for the other older OS's on these models quicker. Again making life in support easier in many ways as well as making developers lives a lot easier. Especialy if they can target toward the a single denominator OS wise and take advantage of all the features without working towards only features common to the previous flavours.

Either way a good move. Though can bet there will be somebody on the older flavour of OS who will have some essentual application that they must have which has issues. But time will tell.

Good move on many levels I'd say by Apple.

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

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Post by tricolon »

donwil92 wrote: post #82
josteink wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you seen the docs for what it takes to get that running? Have you seen the docs for what it takes to complete a normal "update"? Trying to run OS X on non-Apple hardware makes the old days of "cumbersome" Linux-systems look like kindergarten-stuff. I'd hardly say it just runs.

If you spend the time to research and get the parts that are supported by OS X, building a Hackintosh is breeze. I have had no problems with the one I built.

Could you give us a couple links to kick off our own research? I've been wanting to do this for some time now but have been putting it off.

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

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Post by mfranzwa »

aydoubleyou wrote: post #43
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.

Where can I find the list of models?

http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/

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

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Post by mwcremer »

aydoubleyou wrote: post #43
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.

Where can I find the list of models?

http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/

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

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Post by mwcremer »

aydoubleyou wrote: post #43
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.

Where can I find the list of models?

http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/

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

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Post by ctdonath »

ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #100

Some would say that Mavericks was launched for free because Windows 8.1 did the same. Those same people might also say that Apple did one better by offering the update for computers running older than the most recent version of their software.

Offering it for older computers & versions indicates this was in the works long before MS released 8.1 out of urgency.

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

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Post by cdcarter »

brymaster wrote: post #84
arrrg wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To call that planned obsolescence is completely ridiculous.

It's not. All hardware has a planned lifecycle and it's just up to them to draw the line in the sand. They'll also do it through software updates by making less features available on the older model in order to compel you to upgrade to the newer. "AirPlay Mirroring" only available in Sandy Bridge or greater because of the usage of Intel QuickSync is an example of that. For any cocoa/obj-c dev that's dealt with consta…

> They'll also do it through software updates by making less features available on the older model in order to compel you to upgrade to the newer. "AirPlay Mirroring" only available in Sandy Bridge or greatest because of the usage of Intel QuickSync is an example of that.

By your own admission that's not "in order to compel you to upgrade to the newer." That's because the newer hardware is required to make it work satisfactorily.

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

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Post by cmaggard »

donwil92 wrote: post #82
josteink wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you seen the docs for what it takes to get that running? Have you seen the docs for what it takes to complete a normal "update"? Trying to run OS X on non-Apple hardware makes the old days of "cumbersome" Linux-systems look like kindergarten-stuff. I'd hardly say it just runs.

If you spend the time to research and get the parts that are supported by OS X, building a Hackintosh is breeze. I have had no problems with the one I built.

That's sort of what he's going for though- remember the old days of Linux when only certain devices were supported? When using OS X like this, you don't even have the luxury of writing in new code to support them.
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