Mavericks lives up to those standards so I’m happy with it. Sometimes too much change at once is overwhelming and when it comes to my workflow, I prefer incremental updates I can grow with. Other than that, I’m plugging away just as I was in Mountain Lion and all its predecessors. Something was broke in this transition and it’s kind of a big deal. I hope this is something Apple fixes quickly. NEF files has been painful and takes a long time to generate previews in Finder’s list view. I take a ton of photos for iMore and previewing. My biggest one is how it handles RAW image files. That was quickly solved by using Airmail instead. Number one was the Mail app, which in all fairness is Gmails crap IMAP implementation. I only have two general annoyances with Mavericks so far. iBooks is nice but not something I will really use other than storing PDFs. I love the Maps app and the ability to ping myself directions. Tying social into OS X more and bringing more of the conveniences of iOS to my Mac make me feel like my workflow is more complete than it was a week ago. It was an all day fiasco and I don’t miss that one bit. Not to mention it almost always entailed learning a brand new interface.
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I remember being a Windows user and the shock you’d get when half your peripherals or drivers broke when you updated to a new version. I pretty much installed Mavericks and kept working just as I was 30 minutes earlier. The thing I have always loved about OS X updates is that they are incremental. I'm glad to see Apple come to their senses, and stop charging even a token fee for a software update. Try buying a MacBook with no operating system on it and see if I'm right. I guess what I'm saying is that the software isn't a stand-alone product - it's more like a required accessory. You're paying for the software development and more when you buy the hardware. You can't use it without a substantial purchase of Apple hardware, which carries high margins in the profit department. I don't begrudge anyone making money from software development, but OS X updates should have always been free.
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The good news is nothing I use regularly seems to have broken, which is always a risk when you update any OS. That tends to make for less down time and is easier for the end-user. I really would have liked a more modular and delta-style approach, similar to the way popular Linux distributions are done.
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The install went OK, but I could have lived without Maps and iBooks on my computer. So maybe let's not break our arms patting Apple on the back just yet. Arguably it fixed more than it innovated, but whatever. That said, it's worth mentioning that the recent Windows 8.1 was a free update. This wasn't a small update, and I'd have had no problem giving up the usual $20 or so. Apple can get away with it, right or wrong. But for some reason I could see Apple releasing a major update next year, or the year after, and charging for it again. It's tough to raise the price later on down the road, though. But maybe best of all - nothing broke.Īs for the update cost, you can always go cheaper. Finder tabs are nice to have, but (and I won't be the only one to mention this) they're pretty hidden. Proper dual monitor support and the battery life improvements (on the already excellent 2013 MacBook Air - thanks, Haswell!) are the big-ticket items for me.
And updating to Mavericks was surprisingly smooth.
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