Apple Announces OS X Mavericks and It's Free
Apple's OS X Mavericks hit Gold Master earlier this month and Mavericks was the first new product confirmed at today's event.
Craig Federighi took the stage after Tim Cook offered some updates on apps and iOS 7 and said the Apple software team wanted to give users a hardware upgrade through software. As such, Mavericks promises to increase battery life and compress inactive parts of memory (so you can run more applications without slow down). It also adds Open CL for integrated graphics, and a host of other new features including shared links, enhanced notifications, iBooks, notifications, a new improved Calendar app, and more.
The biggest piece of news about Mavericks is that it's free for some Macs going back to as far as 2007. Whether you're going from Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion, you can update to Mountain Lion for free starting today.
Stay tuned for more on Mavericks!
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To certain extent i am questioning why Dell charging more than Apple
The article reads, "Whether you're going from Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion, you can update to Mountain Lion for free starting today."
I think you meant to say, "Whether you're going from Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion, you can update to MAVERICK for free starting today."
correct me if i'm wrong, sorry if i am. Just caught my eye.
Wonder if Apple might some day put tiles on their start screens like MS did with Win8?!