Owen, somewhere within here
<http://www.itnews.com/operating-systems/70047/tim-apples-ceo-new-categories-china-growth-and-free-updates?page=0,5&source=ITNEWSNLE_nlt_itndaily_2013-10-29>
is what Tim has to say about why Mavericks a free upgrade....
Grant
On 10/29/13 1:41 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Just converted to Mavericks and it seem great. And the upgrade was
free .. not sure why.
Steps:
First
- Clean obsolete kruft from computer. OmniDiskSweeper (free) is very
useful.
Also look at apps finding old and unused apps especially ones unlikely
to run.
Delete with AppZapper or similar .. need to remove prefs etc.
- Build a Superduper bootable backup. This is useful both as a
fallback, and if you
want a clean build, you boot from that and have the installer build on
your
internal boot disk. Probably need to clear/format/repair the disk w/
DiskUtil.
- I searched for a "how to migrate to Mavericks" article which
included all that
Then
- Go to App Store and download installer (takes quite a while due to size)
- When downloaded, pops up the installer. You can quit it and install
later if you'd like, in Apps folder
- Took quite a while to install as well, but seemed to do a sweet job
- Initially asked for lots of permissions and other transition
annoyances, but not bad.
- Smoothest install I've ever had.
-- Owen
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Marcus G. Daniels
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 7/12/13, 4:08 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
My performance problems were solved (pushed back) with 8MB of
memory so I'm happy for the moment. I'm expecting that next time
I feel like a HD upgrade (the one in it fails, my data hoarding
and sloppy housekeeping fills it up, or I upgrade to a new
machine) that SSDs will be much more affordable.
OSX Mavericks now has compression in the virtual memory system.
I've been doing parallel builds all day and I see the Activity
Monitor regularly showing 2GB of compressed memory (on an old 4GB
2009 era MacBook Pro). If that had to hit disk, the system would
grind to a halt, but it doesn't. It seems to work well.
Marcus
P.S. Linux has had this for a while in various forms for a number
of years, e.g compcache.
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