OS X Mavericks Now Available Free on Mac App Store

[kingalexthe1st]

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.

There's also the fact that Macs count for less than 15% of Apple's revenue these days. Charging money would mean fewer people update, and it wouldn't bring in that much money anyway. Much better to give it away for free, so more people download it, and take the 30% cut of every app sold for the new OS.

Alex

 

[Fzang]

"This update requires MacBook Air SSD Firmware 1.1"

Sigh. Have to wait for the Apple store to order in new SSDs so they can fix my MBA.

 

[MSUSpartan]

OSX updates are getting less and less incremental it seems.

 

[Gudi]

Weird, I'm singed in as some Ukranian dude. I just locked his account. Ooops. Downloading fine on my other Mac though.

Iluhin83?

Apple-ID: iluhin83@gmail.com

This means somewhere on your filesystem lies a pirated version of the same Mavericks installer application you are trying to download right now. Maybe some early beta or golden master you downloaded from some torrent site. The app is 5GB large, so you should be able to find it easily and throw it in your trash bin. You don't need to empty the trash, just keeping the pirated app in trash will remove the faulty recipe from the App Store and you can upgrade to Mavericks with your own Apple-ID.

If this helped you praise me!

 

[Battlefield 2]

hum, have you actually used it before saying this.
My mac is performing faster than before, plus i have never seen a mature guy complaining for anything free

Yes, I downloaded it and that statement was based of my initial 3+hour impression. At least they've laid off the iOS crap glitter a little bit in this update.

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Are you serious? There is a lot that is new. Most of it is under the hood. This will benefit you as applications are updated to take advantage of it.

Just like Snow Leopard.

 

[Battlefield 2]

I assume you meant "it didn't do anything worthwhile"? Well, if you take the time to read about it, you'll see there's more to it than "new backgrounds".

Thanks for this great read. Maybe I'll change my mind. Maybe.

 

[mw360]

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 think mine's a 2008, but I did go from SL to Mavericks. I lost use of Aperture, which used to run okay, but now refuses without apology ('You have the wrong type of Mac'). It only has 2GB RAM and even without anything much running the new activity monitor shows the system in amber ram pressure (swapping). On the other hand Safari is noticeably quicker at scrolling big pages. Haven't delved much further yet.

 

[sjinsjca]

Are you using version 5 which I have?

6.0.1 here.

 

[gnasher729]

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.

1. Apple doesn't care about Microsoft giving away a much needed bug fix release for Windows 8. Mavericks is free compared to buying and installing Windows 8, or buying and installing any future Windows version.

2. Huh?

But feel free to make a guess what Microsoft's ulterior motive is in giving away Windows 8.1 upgrades for free, and Google's ulterior motive for giving away its apps and Android, and Adobe's ulterior motive in giving away Flash players and PDF readers and so on.

 

[IchabodSpoon]

Mavericks Woes

I started to install Mavericks on my 2009 MacBook. The install failed. Restarting repeatedly brings up the Mavericks installer. It says the disk is damaged. I restarted from the system DVD to repair, and the repair failed. I backed up and reformatted the hard drive, and the system reinstall failed.

I'm guessing that this means I have a bad hard drive, but I never saw any problems before. Now I have a dead Mac.

 

[NickPires]

Question!! I have the CS5 creative suite and I'm still running 10.6.8 on my 2011 MacBook Pro. I do graphic design for clients as well as go to school for it, so I absolutely need it. I'd prefer to not purchase the Creative Cloud just yet however. Anyone with 10.6.8 who upgraded, any problems?!?! Also I have no external storage to back up all my files.. has anyone had an issue with upgrading where anything got deleted?!?

 

[Taz Mangus]

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.

Wow, you mean that anyone who is running Windows XP or Windows 7 can't get Windows 8.1 for free. Anyone running at least OS X 10.6 can get 10.9 for free. Sure looks like Apple did the free 10.9 thing because of MS

 

[just1ed]

Can anyone help me? I'm already on OS X 10.9 GM (13A603) and the app store detects it but I want to download the installer anyway because i want to own a digital copy of Mavericks. When I press continue to download the installer anyway it just loads but the downloading doesn't start. Does anyone know why? thanks

It is downloading, just no progress indicator dude. Fire up activity monitor and you can see the transfer. It will appear in your applications when it is done. What for? It is exactly the same copy bit for bit as the 2nd GM.

 

[adder7712]

Guess my old late-2008 unibody MacBook still gets some love from Apple.

Well, at least I wouldn't have to deal with a non-supported OS on a still somewhat regularly used laptop.

Jumped from 10.7 to 10.9.

 

[Taz Mangus]

Question!! I have the CS5 creative suite and I'm still running 10.6.8 on my 2011 MacBook Pro. I do graphic design for clients as well as go to school for it, so I absolutely need it. I'd prefer to not purchase the Creative Cloud just yet however. Anyone with 10.6.8 who upgraded, any problems?!?! Also I have no external storage to back up all my files.. has anyone had an issue with upgrading where anything got deleted?!?

If you are unsure about what applications will run after you install 10.9, I would suggest creating a new partition on your HD and then installing 10.9 on the new partition. This way you can try out the applications to see what works and what does not. You can always removed the newly created partition after you are done testing it. This is what I am going to do before I officially install 10.9.

HDs are cheap, go out and buy one and do a time machine backup regardless of whether you install 10.9.

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I started to install Mavericks on my 2009 MacBook. The install failed. Restarting repeatedly brings up the Mavericks installer. It says the disk is damaged. I restarted from the system DVD to repair, and the repair failed. I backed up and reformatted the hard drive, and the system reinstall failed.

I'm guessing that this means I have a bad hard drive, but I never saw any problems before. Now I have a dead Mac.

Can you boot to the restore partition? It may be time for you to visit a Apple store to get your machine checked out.

 

[NickPires]

If you are unsure about what applications will run after you install 10.9, I would suggest creating a new partition on your HD and then installing 10.9 on the new partition. This way you can try out the applications to see what works and what does not. You can always removed the newly created partition after you are done testing it. This is what I am going to do before I officially install 10.9.

HDs are cheap, go out and buy one and do a time machine backup regardless of whether you install 10.9.


How do you do that? I might just back up all my files to an external hard drive, install it, and then see what happens. I get a student discount on CC, so I wouldn't pay the $50 a month. My only concern is bricking my computer, cause I certainly don't want to go out and purchase a whole new one.

 

[cjmillsnun]

Question!! I have the CS5 creative suite and I'm still running 10.6.8 on my 2011 MacBook Pro. I do graphic design for clients as well as go to school for it, so I absolutely need it. I'd prefer to not purchase the Creative Cloud just yet however. Anyone with 10.6.8 who upgraded, any problems?!?! Also I have no external storage to back up all my files.. has anyone had an issue with upgrading where anything got deleted?!?

You do professional work and don't have a backup drive???

Let me remind you of a simple fact.

There are 2 types of hard drive.

1. Those that have failed.

2. Those that have yet to fail.

Before you even consider upgrading GO AND BUY A DRIVE. Preferably 2 and use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner

I'm sorry if that sounds pushy, but were your HD to fail just before an important deadline, you would be completely screwed. With a clone backup, you can boot from it. You may have lost some work but you're good to go.

Anyway CS5 is fine with Mavericks

 

[IchabodSpoon]

Tax Mangus,

I've got an Apple Store appointment for Friday. I hope this is just the hard drive. Probably is, because everything else is working fine, and, let's face it, the hard drive is usually the first thing to go.

My guess is this has nothing to do with Mavericks, ultimately, but it's a hardware failure that showed up during the install.

 

[Taz Mangus]

If you are unsure about what applications will run after you install 10.9, I would suggest creating a new partition on your HD and then installing 10.9 on the new partition. This way you can try out the applications to see what works and what does not. You can always removed the newly created partition after you are done testing it. This is what I am going to do before I officially install 10.9.

HDs are cheap, go out and buy one and do a time machine backup regardless of whether you install 10.9.


How do you do that? I might just back up all my files to an external hard drive, install it, and then see what happens. I get a student discount on CC, so I wouldn't pay the $50 a month. My only concern is bricking my computer, cause I certainly don't want to go out and purchase a whole new one.

You create a new partition on the HD using Disk Utility. Go out and buy a new HD and install 10.9 on it and test the applications. This will be the safest way to try out 10.9 without needing to do anything with your current install OS and applications. To test out 10.9 on the external HD, restart the system while holding down the option key.

But first do a Time Machine backup of your system on an external HD.

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Tax Mangus,

I've got an Apple Store appointment for Friday. I hope this is just the hard drive. Probably is, because everything else is working fine, and, let's face it, the hard drive is usually the first thing to go.

My guess is this has nothing to do with Mavericks, ultimately, but it's a hardware failure that showed up during the install.

Hopefully you have a backup of your data before you attempted the install. One thing I have started doing recently was doing a dual backup of my system. I had the unfortunate case where my backup HD failed and I lost all my Time Machine backups. So now, I have 2 external backup HDs. Both are Time Machine backups with one HD for the hourly Time Machine backups and the other I plug in about 3 times a week and run a Time Machine backup.

 

[RDStrong]

1. Apple doesn't care about Microsoft giving away a much needed bug fix release for Windows 8. Mavericks is free compared to buying and installing Windows 8, or buying and installing any future Windows version.

Apple's comparison with Windows is a little bit off. The Windows OS is largely platform independent and can be installed on any old piece of junk computer you have lying around, whereas buying Mac hardware is mandatory if you want to use their OS. If Microsoft had such tight control over hardware/software integration as Apple does then Windows might also be free.

 

[Sandman1969]

Upgraded last night around 8pm eastern and was done by 9. Very smooth upgrade.

Though I didn't get much time to mess with it yet.

Now to upgrade the 4 iMacs and wife MBA.

Have to see if there is a ways to just download and save to all the boxes. That will eat up some bandwidth there over all of them.

 

[hkenneth]

DON'T use iBook if you like me have a lot of PDF put in your iTunes/iPad. It just moved all my well organized PDF to a hidden secret location.

 

[toke lahti]

Anybody tried already if FCP7 works in Mav?

Nobody?
(With millions of lines of code and thousands of bugs, I still prefer actual real life experience, even if "all that works with 10.7, works with 10.9"...

 

[gnurf]

Normally would expect less disk space after a major OS u/g

Well, every OS X update so far has reduced in size. Mavericks is larger than the previous two, but it's also changed how it does swap and sleep images. I have 16GB, and /var/vm/sleepimage is only 8GB. I used it only hours ago, so I know it's been used in Mavericks.

Likewise, it only allocates a safe amount of swap based on what it thinks the current apps might use in a worst case scenario. That has been in for several versions, though. I have yet to use swap, and the two swap files are 64MB and 1GB.

 

[gnurf]

My only immediate concerns are XCode and Parallels - my quick research suggests that Parallels 8 is just fine with Mavericks, but I might wait a few days and check their forums, see if anything is up.

I've been using Mavericks for quite a while, and both Xcode and Parallels are fine. No issues that I've seen running a Win8 VM, and Xcode is one of my main tools. The current Xcode version is of course Mavericks compatible. It would be silly not to ensure compatibility with the latest, since Apple most likely requires every in-house system to run Mavericks from now on