OS X Mavericks Now Available Free on Mac App Store

Usually I wait till 10.x.1 comes out before I upgrade but now since its free might just upgrade later tonight when the servers are not being use as they are now
 
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palmharbor said:
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so you think printing to paper is obsolete? If your printer no longer works after the upgrade...no problem...Right?
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It's certainly obsolete in my world. I just can't think of a reason I'd ever use it. If it's essential for you, then you should do what businesses do and update only after everything has been thoroughly checked - at my workplace we still have some XP machines! I'm currently on Windows 7, 8 is still being trialled.

At home I'm downloading Mavericks, because the past has been and gone, and the future can't get here quickly enough. Of course, not everyone feels the same as me, so I wish you luck in your printing endeavours. Perhaps you should keep an old machine on old software attached to your printer, and have another machine fully updated.
 
ChrisA said:
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.
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Thank you very much for the explanation i was about to be upset. This helps.
 
mavericks does not install..

just downloaded and followed instructions installing mavericks on new macbook air 13 and 2009 imac 27 - same result: installation fails, failing to reboot with following message: your computer resstarted because of a problem... followed by screen with following message - "panic (cpu 1 caller - and later Mac OS version: not yet set..." does someone have a similar problem? What to do? Both updates from Mountain Lion..

Thanks
 
My MacBook Pro is early 2008 with Snow Leopard. I have an old iMovie 08 (7.1.4) and iPhoto 08 (7.1.5) and Front Row Apps will they still work with Mavericks OS?

Thanks in advance.
 
Just downloaded and installed on Mid 2007 iMac, 6 GB RAM. Total install and upgrade time - about 1.5 hours. So far so good. Probably helps that I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion last week and cleaned up a bunch of stuff.
 
Does anyone know how to see how long it will take to download once i start it? I just have a progress bar but that's it.

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madrich said:
My MacBook Pro is early 2008 with Snow Leopard. I have an old iMovie 08 (7.1.4) and iPhoto 08 (7.1.5) and Front Row Apps will they still work with Mavericks OS?

Thanks in advance.
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I'd love to know that as well.
 
Crashed hard drive

I downloaded Mavericks and during install, I got a notice saying that my hard drive had been corrupted and could not be repaired. It asked for me to delete the drive. It won't let me do that either. Thankfully I backed up before this went down and have a Genius Bar appointment tomorrow afternoon.
 
Ah, what a day...it finally feels good to be an Apple fanboy again.

Just upgraded to Mavericks and all seems find apart from some persistent crash when opening Mail (Safari feels REALLY snappier now)

I have also bitten the bullet and upgraded to iTunes 11 and iOS 7.

There is no turning back NOW!!! :D
 
Eligible computer? Is there a list somewhere? And do you at least have to have 10.7 or 8? Or is it free for everyone?

I have mac mini mid 2011 i5 shared video (no usb 3.0) 10.7 came with 2 gb ram and I added a 8gb chip (took the 2 out) so 8 total.

Is that good enough for mavericks? Should I download and try?
 
Downloaded pretty fast. But not installing yet. wanted to know if I need to back up before installing it? I mean I really dun wanna spend time backing up apps , downloads , music and movies if its not needed.

Or will it be just like iOS update which means everything stays in place but OS changes?

Although I already did a time machine backup for my usual stuff but it excludes music movies and downloads which would total to a large amount if included.
 
xp0z3d said:
Downloaded pretty fast. But not installing yet. wanted to know if I need to back up before installing it? I mean I really dun wanna spend time backing up apps , downloads , music and movies if its not needed.

Or will it be just like iOS update which means everything stays in place but OS changes?
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Always backup before a major update. Always.
Just finished doing a time machine backup to my TC as well as a superduper image to another drive.
Can never be too sure!
 
Ifti said:
Always backup before a major update. Always.
Just finished doing a time machine backup to my TC as well as a superduper image to another drive.
Can never be too sure!
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How long would it take to make image 374GB , because thats how much my HDD is holding right now.
 
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