Mavericks and iMac late 2013

[0111587]

I'm going to buy iMac late 2013, if I buy it next week it will come with Mountain Lion, but if I wait until next month it's likely to come with Mavericks. The question is, if I buy one next week do I have to buy Mavericks or will I receive a free upgrade?

 

[w0lf]

I'm going to buy iMac late 2013, if I buy it next week it will come with Mountain Lion, but if I wait until next month it's likely to come with Mavericks. The question is, if I buy one next week do I have to buy Mavericks or will I receive a free upgrade?

If mavericks comes out within about 1 month of your purchase you will likely receive it for free. If it comes out over a month after your purchase you will have to buy mavericks.

This is all assuming they keep the same guidelines as the up-to-date program from last year.

 

[KaraH]

Although unless they suddenly charge more most of the applications you have bought cost more than the OS will.

 

[0111587]

Thanks for the answers.

 

[TwoBytes]

I'm waiting for 10.9 until i buy.

i didn't want to do the upgrade from 10.8 and inherent junk/issues in a brand new high spec system i'll be investing in. It's about hardware as much as software config so i'll be doing a clean install.

 

[Weaselboy]

I'm going to buy iMac late 2013, if I buy it next week it will come with Mountain Lion, but if I wait until next month it's likely to come with Mavericks. The question is, if I buy one next week do I have to buy Mavericks or will I receive a free upgrade?

Last year when Mountain Lion came out Apple gave it to you free if you had purchased a Mac within the last six weeks. I suspect they will do the same this time.

 

[benwiggy]

i didn't want to do the upgrade from 10.8 and inherent junk/issues in a brand new high spec system i'll be investing in. It's about hardware as much as software config so i'll be doing a clean install.

There are no "inherent junk/issues" in installing one version of OS X in place of another.
I've installed every version of OS X since 10.3 on top of an existing OS, and migrated my data across four computers without any problems. Is there some vestigial remnant of 10.2 on my current Mac? I couldn't possibly tell.

 

[TwoBytes]

There are no "inherent junk/issues" in installing one version of OS X in place of another.
I've installed every version of OS X since 10.3 on top of an existing OS, and migrated my data across four computers without any problems. Is there some vestigial remnant of 10.2 on my current Mac? I couldn't possibly tell.

I'm talking from my experience of clean installs vs upgrades of which, i've done many. It's only my opinion. Maybe you've been lucky without slowdowns, crashes or other random issues. I have a LOAD of applications so not taking the risk. I can wait 3 weeks or so.

 

[ElectronGuru]

There's a certain value in having it come with purchase, but I also like having the OS on my Mac App Store history, with the ability to download it to any machine my ID is attached to. And it's such a small charge for the privaledge. To say nothing of the cost of depriving myself a machine I'm ready to buy weeks earlier.

 

[Krazy Bill]

I'm talking from my experience of clean installs vs upgrades of which, i've done many.

That's the problem. Some of us have done so many for so long we think we still need to. There was a time when i shared your philosophy. I blame this OCD behavior on my Windows days.

There's still a place for a clean install but I find most people bring this burden onto themselves by installing 3rd party system-altering crapware and by basically trying to get OSX to do what it really doesn't need to do.