OS X Mavericks Now Available Free on Mac App Store

[kcmac]

If I upgrade to Mavericks and I want to downgrade, is that possible without doing a complete reinstall? Should I need to do this, should I clone my disk or use time machine?

I always clone but both should work. Important thing is to backup. You can always go back.

 

[Monkeyat]

Installed in Parallels 9 !

 

[stark4]

how did you guys downloaded so fast? i started like couple of hours ago and still showing 10 hrs 31 min to go..

1.64 GB of 5.29 GB completed

 

[J. Jizzle]

My upgrade is complete & I am now running Mavericks! Liking it so far.

 

[AllergyDoc]

Took about an hour to download and install. Can't tell much of a difference.

 

[kycophpd]

why is it free?


will it brick my computer?

1. Really??

2. Really??

 

[Schranke]

So you are saying that you did the same process that is used for creating a 10.8 bootable install disk with 10.9? Interested to know if the image actually boots and runs after you create it.

will try now, write when i know // did not work
trying this instead
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/10/22/perform-clean-install-os-x-mavericks/

 

[Flood123]

I know this is supposed to be better on ram but that doesn't seem to be the case when looking at my activity monitor.

late 2012 MBP retina 15inch 16gb of ram 512 sdd 2.7ghz

apps open:
Safari - one tab
activity monitor

Memory used - 5.21gb

 

[Waughy]

Will look into doing my 2012 mini tonight. Now to get a plan together, will be looking to do a clean install on a home made fusion drive.
Using Carbon so will have a backup that I can boot to, then format the fusion and install Mav from the external. Sounds pretty straight forward.

 

[adityakoparkar]

Both, you can still do stuff while it's downloading on the same machine. I'm downloading right now at about 3 MB/sec., which pretty much saturates my connection, so it doesn't seem the servers are being hit too hard just yet (or maybe Apple is just getting better at dealing with it).

Go outside, the graphics are amazing!

Where did you find this line? Or this one is by yourself? I super duper liked it and posted it on my wall. Could give credentials.. so just mentioned from Macrumour forums.

 

[olowott]

Free , that was a shocker like seriously APPLE GIVES OUT FREE STUFF

 

[toke lahti]

Anybody tried already if FCP7 works in Mav?

 

[jlluna]

Installed on my Mac mini, and my mac book air!

 

[alana22]

Been stuck at "completing installation" for about 40 min now. Progress bar has been hanging at what looks like 99% and my iMac hard drive is grinding away. Should I attempt a reboot? I'm a little frustrated by this

 

[abz1981]

I thought I was the only one still running Lion (10.7). I mean I have Mountain Lion on my work laptop. But never upgraded my home computer. It ran just fine with Lion. Well everything but my NAS

Being free I may give Mavericks a shot. I'm edgy though after iOS 7 plagued me. Hopefully today's fix resolves that.

Your not alone. Yeah I know I can clone my MBA and try out Maverick. However to be honest. My usage for my MBA 80% is Safari, Streaming, and downloading movies etc, the rest of my usage is on pages, and numbers. Things have been running fine and smoothly for me. So happy as I am.

 

[Arndroid]

Just curious, what applications have people noticed that don't work properly with 10.9? Maybe we can start compiling a list.

X hamster

 

[Prof.]

There's some hardcore lag on my 2012 i7 MacBook Pro.

 

[JayCee842]

It is a bit shocking that they really released it for free.

Yes, but why the sad face? We should be happy?!

 

[andrew0122]

Finished downloading!

Time to use this!

 

[bobright]

Can somebody tell me if I update to Mavericks would certain old apps now be incompatible? As in some of my current apps could stop working?

 

[andrew0122]

1. Really??

2. Really??

Really Really!

 

[iMikeT]

I thought I was the only one still running Lion (10.7). I mean I have Mountain Lion on my work laptop. But never upgraded my home computer. It ran just fine with Lion. Well everything but my NAS

Being free I may give Mavericks a shot. I'm edgy though after iOS 7 plagued me. Hopefully today's fix resolves that.

I'm on 10.7.5 Lion as well. I wanted to upgrade to 10.8.x Mountain Lion for a while but never got around to it so I just decided to wait for 10.9 Mavericks. Glad I did because it's free!

I'll probably wait a few weeks or so before upgrading because I don't want to run into any issues with apps not working properly.

 

[Patriot24]

I was prepared to spend quite a bit of money updating the two Macs in my home today with Mavericks, iLife, and iWork.

This news is, dare I say, insanely great.

 

[bobright]

X hamster

Do it that'd be nice I really rely on BetterTouchTool, Alfred etc..

 

[ChrisA]

I know this is supposed to be better on ram but that doesn't seem to be the case when looking at my activity monitor.

late 2012 MBP retina 15inch 16gb of ram 512 sdd 2.7ghz

apps open:
Safari - one tab
activity monitor

Memory used - 5.21gb

Actually the OS should make use of as much RAM as it can. It needs to leave some free just incase there is another App launched that would need some.

How much RAM it needs and diffrent from how much RAM it uses. If RAM is available it should be used to cache the disk or to hold old web pages that you might return to and so on and on on.

The way to read Activity Meter is to look at Page Outs. The "outs" tell you what the system ran out of RAM and had to shuffle some data back to disk to make room for something else. Now of course having some free RAM will prevent Page Outs so you ned it. But having to much free RAM is not a good thing either.