OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review 222
An anonymous reader writes "John Siracusa at Ars Technica has put together a comprehensive review of Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks. This is the first time a major OS X update has been free, and it works on any device that supports Mountain Lion. This suggests Apple is trying to boost adoption rates as high as possible. Siracusa says the following about Apple's move away from skeuomorphic design: 'Mavericks says enough is enough. The leather's gone, the fake pages are gone, the three panes are independently resizable (more or less), even the title bar is bone-stock, and it's boring?' On the other hand, he was a big fan of all the internal optimizations Apple has done, since the energy savings over Mountain Lion are significant. He found a 24% increase in his old MacBook Pro's battery life, and a 30% increase for his new MacBook Air. He also praised the long-needed improvements to multi-monitor support: ' Each attached display is now treated as a separate domain for full-screen windows. Mission Control gestures and keyboard shortcuts will now switch between the desktop and full-screen windows on the display that contains the cursor only, leaving all other displays untouched.' The 24-page review dives deeply into all the other changes in Mavericks, and is worth reading if you're deciding whether or not to upgrade."
Maverick McCain (Score:2, Funny)
Finally! An OS suitable for Sarah Palin.
She's a real Maverick.
Re:Biased Ars Review of Apple Product (Score:5, Funny)
Someone needs to counter-balance the horrendous anti-Apple bias found here on /.
Okay, there's the review... (Score:4, Funny)
So when can we expect the Review of Ars Technica's Review of OS X Mavericks?
Re:Nothing about colour accuracy? (Score:4, Funny)
They also dropped off another x86 64bit arch
What the fuck are you blithering about? Mavericks supports all the hardware which Mountain Lion supported.
just as they did with the bullshit 32bit video bus driver bollock.
"32bit video bus driver bollock" is an amazing bit of word salad. Calm down, stop frothing.
Apple only release OS "updates" when they can kill an entire hardware release with the exception of their little cell phones stuck in a 2008 timeloop.
Can't tell if stupid or just trolling.
Re:Step Away From The Kool Aid (Score:1, Funny)
Are you suggesting that C++ is not a fright pig of immense proportions?
Re:It IS a big deal (Score:1, Funny)
So when will Microsoft stop using a floppy disk as a save icon?