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Inside OS X Mavericks

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-good-look dept.

rjmarvin writes "Apple's era of naming OSs after big cats is over. The Mavericks wave is rolling in, and the first four developer previews have given an inside look at the cutting-edge OS. Users and developers have almost entirely positive things to say about Mavericks, from faster speed and improved stability to new features like iBooks and iCloud keychains. While some installation concerns and errors have arisen, developer preview have improved version by version, and Mavericks is looking good."

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  1. Spam nonsense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Alleged "article" is zero information and all noise. Read at your own risk of brain damage.

    1. Re:Spam nonsense by jeremyp · · Score: 4, Informative

      Here's my summary of TFA:

      1. Developer previews of Mavericks are available for developers to look at

      2. Each DP is more stable than the previous one.

      3. It feels faster than 10.8

      4. < List of Mavericks features that is less comprehensive and detailed than this list >

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  2. Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO by jersey_emt · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can switch the mouse scrolling to normal in System Preferences.

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  3. Re:Apple press release by smash · · Score: 5, Informative

    Curring edge features: interrupt coalescing, memory compression, grand central dispatch, app nap. Amongst others. Having run it since DP1 on my main machine, the only minor issues I have had have been Wifi stability (which looks to be fixed now) and blanked out preference panels in the early DPs for features they were in the process of implementing. Battery life is more than 15% better than Mountain Lion (which is already a lot better than Windows), performance seems as fast or even faster.

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  4. Re:Parallels by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I bought Parallels 2. It contained a bug in their handling of IPIs that caused host kernel panics on Core 2 processors (i.e. the processor that I'd bought to run it on). They eventually found the bug and fixed it... in Parallels 3. Their solution to the problem of selling me a product that was not fit for purpose was for me to give them more money. I switched to VirtualBox and will never give that company money again. VirtualBox lacks a few of the nice things in VMWare (in particular, it wires all of the VM's memory and doesn't do deduplication), but it's quite useable.

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  5. Re:Apple press release by Sorny · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quite unlikely to go from Panther to Mountain Lion, seeing as Panther was PPC only and Mountain Lion is Intel only...

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