OS X Mavericks Now Available Free on Mac App Store

[barnettgs]

Mid-2007 Macbook Pro

Have anyone tried this on their 2007 machine yet? By upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mavericks? Will give it a try when I have a time.

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Have anyone tried this on their 2007 machine yet? By upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mavericks? Will give it a try when I have a time.

I've put it on my early 2008 Macbook Pro (not sure if that is the same as a late 2007 model). It seems to work fine, although it spent a lot of time "optimizing" itself after it was up and running (i.e. it was doing something CPU-heavy for some time but has settled down now).


Here's a new one. "Wake For Network Access" never worked right in Mountain Lion for me so I left my Mini on 24/7, but it worked BEAUTIFULLY with Mavericks just now with XBMC running on Generation 1 AppleTV. It didn't even take long to wake up. The monitor stayed asleep. Everything seemed great. Then I touched my keyboard to make the display come on and it did.... But then I noticed I couldn't move my mouse! The light was on and the mouse buttons worked (right button brought up a context menu and the left cleared it), but the arrow was frozen solid. I unplugged the mouse and plugged it back in and all was fine again, but I don't want to do that every time it wakes from sleep. It's always something....

Edit: My Macbook Pro (early 2008) running Mavericks does NOT have this problem with sleep. My Microsoft Intellimouse wakes up just fine from both my USB3 card and the MBP's built-in USB2 ports. The same model mouse does NOT wake up properly/fully on my Late 2012 Mac Mini from either my USB2 hub or directly from one of the Mini's USB3 ports. In both cases, the buttons work, the light is on but the mouse doesn't move. Unplugging it and plugging it back in (to either port) gets it working again. I haven't used sleep on this except to test it shortly after I got it (once I found the wake on network thing didn't work; how ironic it DOES work now but the mouse has to replugged). There must be reason it's not waking properly, but it seems like something that could be hard to track down.

Edit2: I found the cause of the mouse freezing on waking from sleep...well sort of. If I unplug my 2nd monitor and put the computer to sleep, the mouse is just fine when it wakes. That monitor I unplugged is using the Thunderbolt Port with an adapter (not sure if that matters offhand). The question is what can I do about it other than unplugging the monitor?

 

[gnasher729]

There's a 30 second sleep delay when Google Chrome is open.

Anyone else noticing that?

Google is the new Microsoft. People who have been using Macs for ages remember when Microsoft products didn't play well with Macs and caused all kinds of trouble, and now it is Google.

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Microsoft really is getting attacked from all sides.
They actually mentioned Office 365 in the Apple Keynote and how it would be inadvisable to spend $199 on Windows 8 Pro plus Office 365 subscriptions on a yearly basis.

I wonder how many will listen.

can get pretty passive aggressive sometimes.

What do you mean by "passive aggressive"? It's plain aggressive, as they should be. An aggressive move to (a) increase the value of their hardware, which they want people to pay lots of money for, and (b) make sure that the maximum number of customers upgrades to 10.9 as soon as possible, so that quite soon developers can start making 10.9 only applications.

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My mums plastic MacBook isn't supported! I bet it's because all that compressing and decompressing of the data in RAM takes a lot of resources.

Does it have a Core Duo processor (that's the model before Core 2 Duo)? They haven't supported 10.7 or 10.8 either.

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They are doing free, prolly, because this is a business move since they got a slap on the wrist with off shore tax havens? Good for tax purposes for a business to give free stuff. Anyone jump in on this one who can be more technical with terms / experience? Thanks.

They didn't get a "slap on the wrist", and giving away things for free wouldn't have helped, so your post is nonsense.

 

[Southshore]

Ah, the irony.

Does anyone else enjoy that the slew of sponsored ads throught the comments all relate to...windows?

 

[iBug2]

Do you realise that Mavericks so far has been the best reviewed OS release ever? The App Store rating is 5/5 for now, and I haven't seen much whining in the forums so far either.

What on earth is happening here?

 

[lexvo]

Pepper in Google Chrome is VERY glitchy and prone to freezing, the Youtube5 extension in Safari doesn't work anymore, time machine backups freeze the system during completion, mounting network shares pulls up a finder window that shows Macintosh HD->Volumes. SMB to my Synology NAS no longer works.

Anyone else having problems with Time Machine and/or SMB with Mavericks?

 

[SlCKB0Y]

Just a word of WARNING for those of you that paid for OSX Server software for Lion or Mountain Lion. It will NOT work with Mavericks. You have to BUY the UPDATE to get it to work again ($20 every year from now on, it seems since they are apparently going to charge for the update for every OSX update from now on). I own a Mac Mini Server Edition (considerably more expensive than the regular Mac Mini) and it's not free even for that model. Worse yet, the OLD server software no longer functions AT ALL so they have you by both kiwis, as it were. So much for the "free" update to Mavericks!

You weren't content just to bore people to death in the thread you created to moan about this?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1658063/

1. Mavericks is free - the separate server app is not.
2. The server app needs to match your OS version.
3. No one forced you to update - this choice was 100% yours.
4. If you don't want to spend the huge sum of $20, go back to Mountain Lion instead of moaning here about it.

 

[cjmillsnun]

Do you realise that Mavericks so far has been the best reviewed OS release ever? The App Store rating is 5/5 for now, and I haven't seen much whining in the forums so far either.

What on earth is happening here?

It could be the killer price ;-)

 

[mRta03]

Maybe it's happening also to you guys, but I installed Mavericks last night and Mac was on so It could rebuild the caches, spotlight, etc.

But since yesterday, I can't access my documents, images, etc. The files show up in "All Files" folder, but this specific folders have the waiting icon spinning for hours. Is it normal?

 

[mlmwalt]

How's it running on late 2007 MBP? I've been riding SL for years, obviously. It's be nice to upgrade and keep this little bad boy for a couple of more years.

 

[jonasdamn]

anyone got problem with Apple maps standart view? No problems with hybrid

 

[neuropsychguy]

I'll do a fresh install but will wait one or two weeks to see the reaction of the first-installers (if there are a lot of bugs, etc) and also to have a quicker download speed, I don't want a full day download.

My downloads were quite fast yesterday (much better than Mountain Lion). The install was absolutely flawless on both my Macs (Mac Mini purchased last year and late 2011 MacBook Pro) without any glitches or bugs. It works just like ML, maybe slightly better but I haven't had an opportunity to put it through its paces yet.

The Finder tabs are very helpful. Extending or mirroring the desktop via an Apple TV was good other than the slow cursor speed when in extended space. It's been the easiest OS upgrade ever (although Lion to ML was about the same).

 

[JohnArtist]

About 8 hours downloading.... 29 MB so far

Did you reaaaaaaaallly expected anything else... on the first day of release... for something that is not only brand new, but FREE? Even if I was going to download it (which I am not, due to feared app incompatibility as well as first gen. bugs), I would wait at least 3 days if not a week to do so.

BTW, still on 10.6.8 due to the above reasons.

 

[Xiroteus]

At first there was - free for that two thousand dollar laptop? One would almost hope so or at least be thinking that for years.

However, even going back to 2007? Great move and nothing negative to say when going back that far. I would think such a costly system should get updates for free yet I never would think they would be good for years, maybe one or two at best.

 

[G4DP]

Must say a great improvement so far, only tried it for basic things, waiting till the weekend to install on main drive.

Downloaded in 30 minutes, install was quick and simple, speed is very similar to that of SL. Looking forward to putting it under some strain over the next couple of day before making it main OS though.

Have to say it has given my 2008 MacPro an new lease of life. Much better than Lion. Can't comment on ML as I never bothered with the upgrade.

 

[Winni]

What do you mean by "passive aggressive"? It's plain aggressive, as they should be. An aggressive move to (a) increase the value of their hardware, which they want people to pay lots of money for, and (b) make sure that the maximum number of customers upgrades to 10.9 as soon as possible, so that quite soon developers can start making 10.9 only applications.

Well, it's safe to assume that Apple is not giving this update away for free because of the goodness of their hearts. There are two reasons for the free upgrade:

1. Simply because Microsoft gave away the 8.1 upgrade for free to existing 8.0 customers.

2. To lock-in the customers even deeper into all those fancy Apple cloud services. (Exactly what Microsoft also did with the 'free' 8.1 upgrade.)

When a corporation gives away something "for free", you can bet that there are ulterior motives involved.

 

[toke lahti]

Nope, keep it basic unless data loss, then pull out Data Rescue III. Disk Utility serves it purpose, don't tinker.

I'd like to use SMARTreporter, so that I can handle data loss before it happens. A lot less tinkering that way. And it's very basic to use, just install and forget, it will send you an e-mail when something is going to get wrong.

I guess that Apple keeps very low profile about S.M.A.R.T, since you can't use it with most external drives and it's economical for Apple that people don't know that there's something a bit wrong with your mac's internal storage within warranty / applecare.

 

[Gudi]

Well, it's safe to assume that Apple is not giving this update away for free because of the goodness of their hearts. When a corporation gives away something "for free", you can bet that there are ulterior motives involved.

Don't think so conspiratorial. Software copies are cheap. You can do millions of customers a favor at minimal costs. With a yearly update cycle even $20 is too much to ask for every year again and again. Going free was a necessity to not look greedy. iOS devices are getting free updates also. Google is giving Android away for free. Free software has become a major industry trend. Apple is late with free OS X updates. Mountain Lion should have been free already. You can't blame them when they charge money and blame them when they don't charge money. Decide!

 

[Pilgrim1099]

I have OS X 10.6.8 currently and am extremely tempted to upgrade straight to Mavericks on my 2011 iMac. However, I'm curious if anyone who has the older Adobe CS5 package ( Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. ) have had any issues using Mavericks with it.

I know Adobe made claims that they tested Mavericks with CS5 and CS6 without any issues, so far. But I like to make absolutely sure it's not going to be problematic.

 

[calaverasgrande]

Network Utility is gone?
What.The.Hell.

 

[Macneck]

Multiple Mac's in the house

since it is free...just hit the appstore on each machine.

Obviously you don't have to live with a 100KB/s connection.

 

[calaverasgrande]

Maybe it's happening also to you guys, but I installed Mavericks last night and Mac was on so It could rebuild the caches, spotlight, etc.

But since yesterday, I can't access my documents, images, etc. The files show up in "All Files" folder, but this specific folders have the waiting icon spinning for hours. Is it normal?

open disk utility
repair permissions.

 

[Thunderhawks]

Well, it's safe to assume that Apple is not giving this update away for free because of the goodness of their hearts. There are two reasons for the free upgrade:

1. Simply because Microsoft gave away the 8.1 upgrade for free to existing 8.0 customers.

2. To lock-in the customers even deeper into all those fancy Apple cloud services. (Exactly what Microsoft also did with the 'free' 8.1 upgrade.)

When a corporation gives away something "for free", you can bet that there are ulterior motives involved.

All good business to me and for those who have Macs already it is FREE, as in we don't pay.

When we decide to buy another MAC it's FREE also, so:

Where is the problem?

PS: Apple sucks at services. So far iCloud is a no go for me and no "lock in"for anything they do. Dropbox runs rings around them.

 

[RobFog]

Network Utility is gone?

It is not.

What.The.Hell.

I don't know?

 

[Macneck]

About 8 hours downloading.... 29 MB so far

Did you reaaaaaaaallly expected anything else... on the first day of release... for something that is not only brand new, but FREE? Even if I was going to download it (which I am not, due to feared app incompatibility as well as first gen. bugs), I would wait at least 3 days if not a week to do so.

Well, I knew it would not be fast, but I definitely expect it to take less than two months to download!!

Anyways I think it was some kind of hiccup or something, because this morning I restarted my MBA and continued to download at the amazing speed of 100KB/s. I felt like skydiving!! [/Sarcastic mode]