Will we get Yosemite for free if we buy a laptop now?

[hajime]

Hello, I am considering to buy the latest rMBP 15" or MB Air. How likely will I be able to upgrade to Yosemite for free?

 

[OllyW]

It will be free for everyone, Apple stopped charging for OS upgrades last year when Mavericks was released.

 

[r0k]

Hello, I am considering to buy the latest rMBP 15" or MB Air. How likely will I be able to upgrade to Yosemite for free?

Yes. Though if you ever wipe your machine and want to start over, you will find it easiest to start from the version of OSX that came with your Mac and then "upgrade" to whatever the current version of OSX happens to be when you do your wipe.

It will be free for everyone, Apple stopped charging for OS upgrades last year when Mavericks was released.

And I was gonna offer it to him at a "discount".

 

[northernmunky]

Yep, all OS updates are now free.

 

[robeddie]

Yes. Though if you ever wipe your machine and want to start over, you will find it easiest to start from the version of OSX that came with your Mac and then "upgrade" to whatever the current version of OSX happens to be when you do your wipe.

Huh? Easiest? It's the same process, just install the latest version of the OS you want to put on there. Doing an earlier version first, then doing the upgrade, is 'harder' not 'easier'.

 

[r0k]

Huh? Easiest? It's the same process, just install the latest version of the OS you want to put on there. Doing an earlier version first, then doing the upgrade, is 'harder' not 'easier'.

I wholeheartedly agree, however having done it a few times I found that putting a newer version than the one my machine came with didn't always work. One example was Snow Leopard on a machine that came with Leopard or Leopard on a machine that came with Tiger. Now that every OS is recoverable either from the recovery partition, a homemade USB stick or over the internet perhaps this isn't an issue any more.

 

[thetechfixer]

yes sir