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OS X Mavericks Now Available Free on Mac App Store

HiRez said:
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).
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That's entirely too logical of an answer, stop that.
 
What if I want to go back to Mountain Lion?

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?
 
Started the download with an expected time of 1:45, now its just over three hours. How high will it go??? Taking all bets!!! :p


I'm just glad it's running, hopefully it won't error. :fingers crossed:


EDIT: Whoa, someone at Apple must have hit the red button, I'm down to under an hour with about 3/4 of the 5.3 GB left to go. Not bad, not bad at all.
 
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In a word...

newappleboy said:
Does anyone know if doing a simple upgrade on this will break an existing BootCamp install? I know clean installs always cause problems, but will an upgrade allow me to keep my existing BootCamp partition in place without having to reformat and reinstall my Windows 7 setup?
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No. It will not.
 
Forced upgrade

Just realized that 10.9 Mavericks is required to install and run the new iWork suite. Kinda bummed about that. The new iLife probably has the same requirement.

They did the same thing with the change from MobileMe to iCloud (wasn't backward compatible with 10.6, had to upgrade to 10.7 Lion). I'm getting kinda tired of these all-or-nothing upgrades. Are these various applications REALLY that reliant on, and tied-in to each successive operating system? :(
 
neilford said:
How much of my current software will break, if I upgrade? Parallels? VMWare? Blender? etc?
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If you need it for work, I'd wait. I'm doing the same. I need CS6 as well as VMware. Hopefully we can hear from testers.
 
iBug2 said:
When I had 100Gigabit fibre, I once actually downloaded an OS X install in 10 minutes from App Store. But not on the launch day. :)
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100 Gigabit... so you live directly at the backbone of the internet? :p

I have a 150Mbit line, usually takes me 5 min for 5GB, depending if the server supports my full 150Mbit.

Currently with Apple servers overloaded, it says 22hours remaining :p
 
Sucks, when they said you would be able to upgrade all the way from SL, i thought my laptop would be supported...however, its not :(

late 2006 MBP
 
I really want to install it but I'm afraid it will make my computer slower like Mountain Lion and Lion did.
 
So now OsX has same price as Linux!
BOOM!
...but, "The application you tried to download could not be downloaded. Check your internet connection and try again."
At the same time I'm watching the stream from Special Event.
They are really working hard preventing me for turning to a fanboy...!
 
I was so happy when they announced that Mavericks would be free... Downloading right now!

Hope this makes my MacBook Air 11"'s 5 hour battery extend to 6 :p
 
Glumpfner said:
100 Gigabit... so you live directly at the backbone of the internet? :p

I have a 150Mbit line, usually takes me 5 min for 5GB, depending if the server supports my full 150Mbit.

Currently with Apple servers overloaded, it says 22hours remaining :p
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Oops, making the edit. :)
 
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