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OS X Mavericks Released for All Mac Developers as Golden Master Seed
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disk space usage again
No more than is used by Mountain Lion. Please read the earlier posts.
No more than is used by Mountain Lion. Please read the earlier posts.
Because their usage data probably shows that no one is using Game Center over Steam anyway. There is no point in redesigning the look of an App that hasn't found its true purpose yet.
Mavericks
Anyone think this will be a free update or still come in at 19.99?
That's cool news.
Anyone think this will be a free update or still come in at 19.99?
That's cool news.
I saw that and it didn't work with the GM. However I saw on another post that this command in terminal seemed to do the trick.
As long as the drive is "Untitled" and the "Install OS X Mavericks" is in the Apps folder it seemed to all go well!
iOS? Free. iWork? Now free with purchase of new hardware on iOS, and free on iCloud for everyone (no subscription needed as was the case for prior MobileMe features). iLife? Free on purchase of new hardware on iOS.
Now, given that iWork is free on iCloud, my hunch is that like with iOS, iWork will be free on OS X with the purchase of new hardware for OS X (otherwise people would just use the web-app instead of downloading the client-side version). iLife? Free with purchase of new hardware for OS X.
Do you see a trend? More and more of Apple's non-pro software is becoming free. So people are hopeful that Apple, in an attempt to entice more people to constantly upgrade, will push out OS X for free.
Installed and liking it so far, especially with full screen apps.
Do have 2 queries, first it appears CHUD no longer works, and with it I can't use the "purge" command in terminal to clear inactive memory. However, seeing as there are big improvements there, perhaps it wont be such a big issue. In the past though it's been a part of my daily use when it appears inactive RAM isn't cleared and the mac starts paging the disk
In Calendar.app, the holidays calendar, which is meant to show national holidays for my region, appears to do nothing. I'm in Australia, Monday is a holiday and nothing pops up in the calendar.
Do have 2 queries, first it appears CHUD no longer works, and with it I can't use the "purge" command in terminal to clear inactive memory. However, seeing as there are big improvements there, perhaps it wont be such a big issue. In the past though it's been a part of my daily use when it appears inactive RAM isn't cleared and the mac starts paging the disk
In Calendar.app, the holidays calendar, which is meant to show national holidays for my region, appears to do nothing. I'm in Australia, Monday is a holiday and nothing pops up in the calendar.
Probably because it is only a state holiday in ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, not a national holiday.
iWork, even though free now, isn't updated for ages. I don't see why Apple would produce iWork 2013 per example and give it away for free. And OS X is a system that always costed money.. iOS never did unless for iPods back in the days. Imagine Apple asking for money on something that was never paid for. How many more costumers would they lose to Android?
And, if you think they will suddenly start giving away an OS, you probably don't know Apple. They may think more people will upgrade but they also know that there are tons of people who are eager to update and, $20 each is something.
There are good arguments for and against Mavericks being free. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was free though.
First, it fits with Apple's view of upgrade pricing in the App Store. After all, one could make the argument that Mavericks is just an upgrade of Mountain Lion and therefore should be free to users of Mountain Lion. This is what they push developers to do.
Secondly Apple is not a software company. They do develop and make software to help sell their hardware. Having free OS updates (which many people are beginning to expect from the mobile realm) and a free full fledged office suite will help them sell a lot of hardware.
Of course Apple does doe some weird things like give too little iCloud storage and charge to much for additional. But they haven't announced pricing for Mavericks yet or mentioned anything about current purchasers of Macs receiving it for free after a certain date and yet it's going to be released to the public in a week or two. That's different.
Installed and liking it so far, especially with full screen apps.
Do have 2 queries, first it appears CHUD no longer works, and with it I can't use the "purge" command in terminal to clear inactive memory. However, seeing as there are big improvements there, perhaps it wont be such a big issue. In the past though it's been a part of my daily use when it appears inactive RAM isn't cleared and the mac starts paging the disk
In Calendar.app, the holidays calendar, which is meant to show national holidays for my region, appears to do nothing. I'm in Australia, Monday is a holiday and nothing pops up in the calendar.
About the purge one, try "sudo purge" instead of just "purge".
Okay, fair point. Nothing pops up in December or January, when I think Christmas or Australia Day might be a national holiday
That worked, thank you!
Good to know it's still accessible, if not for having the extra step of having to type a password.
Still, CHUD.framework was conflicting with Symbolication.framework, so I removed CHUD and all is good.
Your last paragraph is the only thing that makes me wonder. I'm 99% sure that it won't be free but Apple not announcing the price or talking about new Macs promotion is the only thing that could point to it being free. On the other hand, it makes total sense that such things are only revealed on the rumored upcoming event. What difference would it make for Apple to announce pricing on the first keynote about Mavericks or the next one about new Macs and Mavericks release date? They would just say "Mavericks is available today on the MAS for $X". Jobs did that with hardware.. Why wouldn't something like that happen with Mavericks?
How was it with previous OS? Did they announce pricing on the first time they talked about it? Were there any Mac related keynotes between that and release?
There is more reason to believe that Mavericks won't be free than the opposite but this is something I wouldn't mind at all if not right
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Your last paragraph is the only thing that makes me wonder. I'm 99% sure that it won't be free but Apple not announcing the price or talking about new Macs promotion is the only thing that could point to it being free. On the other hand, it makes total sense that such things are only revealed on the rumored upcoming event. What difference would it make for Apple to announce pricing on the first keynote about Mavericks or the next one about new Macs and Mavericks release date? They would just say "Mavericks is available today on the MAS for $X". Jobs did that with hardware.. Why wouldn't something like that happen with Mavericks?
How was it with previous OS? Did they announce pricing on the first time they talked about it? We're there any Mac related keynotes between that and release?
There is more reason to believe that Mavericks won't be free than the opposite but this is something I wouldn't mind at all if not right
They never release pricing info the first day they announce it. They haven't even announced the release date yet. They first announce the new OS X and iOS versions at WWDC, then have events for both later in the year where they announce release date and pricing.
There will be another Apple event sometime this month, at which point they'll announce the release date and pricing information for Mavericks.
My thoughts exactly. More proof that not announcing price yet means nothing to whether it will be free or not. I'm still pretty sure it won't.
Total days from GM to release date of Mountain Lion last year was 16 days. The announcement for availability and pricing was made the day before release on July 24th. ML was released July 25th.
So I guess there really isn't anything new about this year other than no mention of current Mac buyers getting the update for free after a certain date.
Good point. Also let's not forget that as iOS and OS X become more integrated, i.e. as so many of the features are meant to work hand in hand with one another, does it really make sense to offer iOS for free, but not its counterpart which is presumably just as important to upgrade?
You have a good point too. It doesn't make sense if you want people to be using iOS 7 and Mavericks but charge for one. I would imagine it would be much easier (and cheaper for Apple) to provide support for iOS 7 devices and Mavericks than iOS7 and Lion and Mountain Lion with people wondering why some features don't fully work.
Just a hunch without any proof (and who has any proof?) but I think Mavericks will be free.
Animation smoothness question
I have a mid-2010 MBP 13" as well and wanted to know whether the animations are butter smooth such as mission control and changing desktop animation on this machine?
This is exactly what I wanted to hear!
I have a mid-2010 MBP 13" as well and wanted to know whether the animations are butter smooth such as mission control and changing desktop animation on this machine?
