Damn. YOU get mavericks. YOU get mavericks. EVERYONE gets mavericks!
For anybody holding back, this update is the real deal. Snow Leopard was incredibly fast and incredibly stable. The transition to Mountain Lion brought a lot to the table feature-wise (mostly surrounding integration with iOS and its devices), at great expense from a performance standpoint. When I "upgraded" to Mountain Lion it felt like my machine aged 2 years overnight (while getting some great features at least). Mavericks feels like it gave me those two years back in just as short a timeframe. Completely unscientifically speaking, everything is just snappier. Time to open apps, transitions, etc. Couple that with extending the battery life of any machine that loads it, and it's looking to be the best iteration since SL. I'll take an "under the hood" update over a feature-centric one any day.
It's nice to download a new version of any software and find that it gives you not only more features, but a performance and battery bump. Definitely not the way things normally go. Usually it's just more bloat. I downloaded iOS 7 on my iPhone 4 and it turned it in to a pile of poop. Not a huge deal as I'm grabbing a new phone in a week, but they really pushed it by "supporting" that device. They were kind of screwed though regarding how far back they could support old devices with iOS 7 being such a major overhaul and riding on the back of the largest processor performance jump in years (the A7 chip in the new phones and tablets). Speaking of tablets, T-Mobile is doing a crazy thing. They will be carrying the new iPads, and if you buy one with a 3G antenna from them, they have a 200MB/month data plan absolutely free, and it is for as long as you own that iPad forever, whether you are a T-Mobile customer or not. Freakin crazy. We had just made the decision to switch to T-Mobile because of their ridiculously competitive pricing and the fact that you aren't locked into a contract if it sucks, then they bust this out. I feel like they are the only carrier out there competing.
found this on slashdot So, basically, if you rely on OS X for colour accurate work, you're totally fucked. Good idea to wait two weeks before major updates to anything important to your daily activities or production.Basically, the sRGB spec is no longer sRGB, and colour managed applications that use ColorSync are completely hosed. Almost everything is more saturated then it should be. Towers of bug reports have been filed on this alone and absolutely nobody has received a response from Apple, which makes me think it's some retarded "stylistic choice" of theirs to literally try and make the OS "look better" (it doesn't).
Installing on iMac as I type! I've already 'hacked' my old A1176 Mini to run Lion, but alas, Mavericks is a no-go on the GMA950 integrated GPU. Still, I am absolutely dumbfounded that Apple have given it away for free. Do you think this is a one-off goodwill gesture, or setting a new precedent to give Microsoft prolonged competition?
Another Article Key Points: More people on same OS = better compatibility everywhere: Microsoft can't make as much money from selling Windows OS: IT guys reconsidering using Macs in the workplace: on iLife:When more and more users upgrade to Mavericks, because it's free, Apple users will more and more operate on the same standard, enhancing the platform's security while boosting app compatibility.
With Apple offering its sleeker, better-reviewed operating system now for free, Microsoft's pricing for Windows--both to average consumers and enterprise customers, as well as possibly OEMs--will seem outlandishly high by comparison.
Certainly, PCs are likely to remain cheaper up front, but now they might seem significantly more costly to maintain over the years.
makes Microsoft look greedy for deciding this year to start charging for Office 365 on an annual subscription basis: $99 per year.
Top comment on there nails it:Scared of 8.1, Apple?
The next iteration of Windows 8. Makes a bunch of drastic improvements, though that's just personal opinion. It's also being released free. It's believed Apple is following Microsoft's footsteps. Edit: Just realized you probably know what Windows 8.1 one is. Sorry, haha.
No, I was checking to see if that's what insomnia meant. Thanks