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Do note, however, if your computer is a little on the old side, not all of the new Mavericks features will be available with your setup. The first thing Mac users should be aware of is that there's nothing eye-popping in Snow Leopard that's going to have you scrambling to upgrade. As mentioned earlier, any Mac or MacBook running OS X Snow Leopard or newer is compatible with the Mavericks upgrade, so if you're not there yet, you'll have to upgrade to Snow Leopard first. Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 was superseded by Lion OS X 10.7 in 2011 which in turn was replaced by Mountain Lion in 2012. So here is our step-by-step 'how-to' on the Mavericks download and upgrade process.įirst thing you'll need is a Mac computer (of course). Needless to say, with a price tag of, well, nothing, no user currently on OS X Snow Leopard or later has any financial reason not to upgrade. This is surprising given the generally high prices of new desktop operating systems in the past: Previous versions of Mac OS X have cost as much as $129, with the last iteration, Mountain Lion, going for $19.99. You get OS X Mavericks! And you get OS X Mavericks! Security Update 2012-002 is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X.Apple did its best Oprah impression at Tuesday's press event, announcing that it would be giving away all its newest OS X update, called Mavericks, at no charge.

Security Update 2012-002 is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X. The integration of Grand Central, OpenCL and a 64 bit kernel will finally allow them to take full advantage of the dual processing power of Intel Macs and produce some stunning applications. In addition, its also fair to say that developers will find much to be happy about about in Snow Leopard. If you're finding your Mac is operating increasingly slowly, then for speed alone it's worth the upgrade to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Stacks has been improved to allow users to drill-down the contents of sub-folder completed an install in an incredible 13 minutes. May not be of much interest to single users but network administrators installing Snow Leopard on multiple machines can expect to install it in around 15 minutes compared to around an hour for Leopard.

Mac users can now connect to Microsoft Exchange 2007 servers via Mail, Address Book, and iCal In an unusual (and some might say slightly desperate move) Apple included a beta version of Safari 4 with Snow Leopard presumably in a bid to give it a leg-up against Firefox.Ī smart business move that will surely attract more corporate users.

Maybe inspired by the success of VLC Player, 'QuickTime X' features a simplified GUI with a greater focus on codec supportįinder has a glossy new Cocoa Desktop Window and Contextual Menu

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