Apple Will Release OS X Mavericks Today as Free Download

[thefourthpope]

Incredible offer. Nearly makes up for the extra iPad cost (just gotta complain )
This is a savvy business move. I want Mavericks on my Mini at home, but I'm doubtful it has the hardware to run well, so I'll probably end up grabbing this free download, not liking the slower times on my machine, and buying a brand new Mini...

 

[Impuls3101]

Only 1 day and 20 hours to go

edit: Paused/Resumed it and now its flying again

 

[MBHockey]

Flying here at 7 Megabytes a second

 

[Michael Goff]

You should be able to just type in your actual account email address over the one that's already there. Is it not allowing you to enter in the account you actually use??

The section where I'd put in my email address is grayed out. It only has a weird address that I've never seen before in my life.

 

[sparky1499]

6 minutes left

 

[Mwongozi]

Well, this is weird. I keep going to go download it and it keeps saying that I have to give a password to an account that isn't even linked to the computer at all.

This usually happens if you have pirated/stolen an App Store app without buying it using your account.

Delete the pirated app and it will stop.

 

[street.cory]

Mavericks is now live!

 

[Otterblue]

Wondering if I should do a fresh install.

 

[shanson27]

wow, 5,29 GB downloading now (Germany)

 

[akbarali.ch]

great! nothing here in India so far.

 

[Snookerman]

How are you supposed to download and install from a computer running Snow Leopard if the update is done using the App store which I can't access using my three Snow Leopard computers?

Update to 10.6.8 (The Mac App Store is on 10.6.6 and higher).

 

[cgriffis753]

Build number

Once somebody gets its installed can we confirm if it is the same build from the other day?

 

[TsMkLg068426]

Let the complains and glitches start!

 

[lupin.terzo]

350 MB of 5.29 GB!!

 

[elgrecomac]

Downloading right now

Over 5.2 GB to download and the servers are being hit a bit. Looks like it will take about 20 minutes or more.

I've been running an old GM version on an external firewire/800 drive and its been fine but I'm looking forward to seeing the performance improvements on my internal drive. Will update after the download and 45 minute update.


Update: now a bit slow. R the servers getting hammered? And its not my ISP because I use WebPAss (http://www.Webpass.net) and my transfer speeds are 315mbs down and 200+mbs up...

 

[Phazer]

Come on UK!!

 

[Abs_p]

Live !!!1

 

[tooobe]

Fantastic, at last Apple starts following Microsoft in shipping their service packs free!

So your argument is that OSX 10.9 is more or less the same product as OSX 10.0? OSX has seen more change in every point update than any major Windows update (except for perhaps Windows 7, which was an awesome upgrade from Vista at the time, although Vista caught up to 7 after quite a while).

 

[sparky1499]

and done.

Uk

 

[Snookerman]

Still not available in Sweden :/

 

[Weaselboy]

Mine is coming in at about 5MB/s. A bit slow for my connection, but faster than I expected for being released right now.

Getting about 4MB/s here, which is pretty much saturating my connection.

 

[Aucun Express]

Very nice. I was not expecting this free announcement. I was already getting ready to use an App Store gift card that I wanted to give at Christmas. #ashamed

 

[tooobe]

It will be available sometime after the keynote, but don't plan on it downloading very quickly.

For me it downloaded in under 10 minutes just now. 5 point something GB.

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Still not available in Sweden :/

Yes it is, search for Mavericks.

 

[jovada]

Still not available in Sweden :/

Couldn't find it in the App Store, but just go to you local Apple website and you'll find the download link right there on the product page of Mavericks.

 

[5t3f4n]

Old iPhoto icon in Dock.