I have a late 2013 MacBook Air. It is running great with the system that came on it. I think 10.8. Is that mountain lion?
Is there really any need/advantage to go to Mavericks? I using Xcode for hobby projects, Microsoft office 2008 and that basically it. I don't really think there are any features I need in Mavericks right now. But I want to make sure.
Thanks
Don't do it.
There is no difference and no advantage. It is actually more annoying because they changed tiny things here and there that actually bothers me.
For example, previously you were able to label any element in the Finder with a color. If you have x amount of elements in a folder and each one with a different color, originally you were able to select all and deselect all the colors labels.
In Mavericks, you can not delete the color labels at same time. Now you have to chose all the elements, give that same color to every element and then deselect that color to delete it.
And now, you can have more than one color label per element.
If you have 40 pictures in a folder, 2 are labeled orange and 3 blue. If you want to delete the orange labels at once, you would have to select the 40 pictures (select all) and give the blue color to all the pictures and then deselect the blue color again.
If you have 3 pictures with blue, orange and green color, you can deselect one by one or select all, add the blue to all, delete all, add green to all, delete all and so on...
That sort of things you will find in Mavericks. I didn't see any improvement just twisted things that are different with no reason.