 OS X 10.9 Mavericks is available for download through Apple's Mac App Store and is completely free for those currently using Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard.
I am surprised its free, considering Lion and Mountain Lion upgrades were $29 and $19 respectively. I am not complaining though

Apple - OS X Mavericks - Do even more with new apps and features.

Only thing which is keeping me from upgrading is that my Paralles Desktop v7 will not work with Mavericks. I have to upgrade to v9 and pay $49.99
I am not in a mood to pay another $50. Might wait till Black Friday for a sale and see if I can save some bucks.

Best idea to wait for Black Friday sales -- heard prices of many items drop to nearly 70-80%, and with the hype moving, that definitely makes the prices high

Who knows, there might be even more deals along the way

oberder wrote: Best idea to wait for Black Friday sales -- heard prices of many items drop to nearly 70-80%, and with the hype moving, that definitely makes the prices high

Who knows, there might be even more deals along the way

I had a Live Chat with Parallels Support and they offered me a 10% discount (only valid for 24 hours). So I need to pay $44.99 instead of $49.99 for the upgrade.
Yes, I am aware of the Black Friday deals. Last year, they offered upgrades for $39.99 which is just $10 off the regular price.

I might give Virtual Box a try as its completely free.

I am downloading maverick and it's a slow process.....as usual.
Looks like about 5 hours.

I do love Apple products but they are certainly deviant the way they go about things to suck money
out of their customers.

When the IPAD MINI came out, I was real glad to see it and purchased. I do really like it and recently
thought I had a battery problem but I discovered it was my own fault. I did not close the cover properly
and the battery drained.

Now they are about ready to introduce the new retina display mini ipad.
I won't be buying one as it would be stupid for me to, since it's been only months since I bought the original.

A couple of weeks ago, I bought a lenovo tablet. I wanted a table that was at least some what larger
than the mini but did not want to spend the money on the larger ipad.

Back to the maverick os. It appears from the reviews that everyone likes it. At this moment, I have
4 hours left on the download.

I started to download mine about four and a half hours back. Right now it says 5 hours still left.
I'll leave it to download while I sleep. Hopefully, it will be done by the time I wake up.

valerie wrote: I do love Apple products but they are certainly deviant the way they go about things to suck money out of their customers.

I must agree with you. If you compare the iPad or the iPhone models, there is not much of a difference.
But everytime they launch a new model, they market it as if they have introduced something revolutionary.
And as always they tend to purposely leave out some feature for an older device (example, no AirDrop on iPhone 4/4S on iOS7)

Mine says 3 hours and 52 minutes left, at this moment. It has been yoyoing tho...I think once it said 7 hours.

I have an IPod Touch 4. I bought it a couple of years ago and at the moment, I can't remember why I
bought it. I rarely ever look at it. I don't think the thing holds a charge for more than a couple of hours.
I read some months ago online of people taking their IPod Touch 4 (and maybe other versions too) and
making them into smart phones. There are instructions online on how to do that. At one point, I really
did consider it because it is rather useless to me as is. I would have done it just to see if I could do it.

Anyway, you can't win these days in regards to staying updated on the latest and newest
techno products. You can, but you'd be spending a small fortune and wasting a lot of money
to boot.

It's kind of funny how far it's come in the computer world. In a not so long period of time, the
computer towers and monitors, are well on their way out. Even lap tops are not so much the
item any more. Tablets are it!

I'm just wondering when they'll start placing computers inside us. It's gonna happen, ya know!

I have finally got it installed. Took over 4 hours to download and almost an hour to fully install.

My books from my iPad were automatically in the new ibooks on mac. Looks like some other
things from my mini iPad is there too, such as maps.

I am on Mavericks now and my system is running much quicker

Maps is as usual disappointing. I don't use iBooks so its of no use to me. I find the Finder tabs really convenient. Makes me feel I am using a browser.

Noticed something new on Mavericks.
Whenever an app is automatically updated in the background, in the Launchpad you will see twinkling stars around it.

What are you using mavericks on? Phone, laptop?

Because I always have finder on my MAC. I have not looked at everything in regards to the mavericks yet.
I probably won't use the ibooks much on MAC but I do use it some what on the iPad.

valerie wrote: What are you using mavericks on? Phone, laptop?

Because I always have finder on my MAC. I have not looked at everything in regards to the mavericks yet.
I probably won't use the ibooks much on MAC but I do use it some what on the iPad.

I am on a laptop and those updates and twinkling stars would be found on the Lauchpad.

Click the Launchpad icon in the Dock. Or if you removed it, you will find it in the Applications Folder.


Mac Basics: Launchpad

Yes I have launchpad but was wondering what you had, a MAC or something else.

I don't have an IPhone so I don't know what kind of set up they had on those.