OS X Mavericks – this one is a doozy
Apple said that its new operating system, named OS X Mavericks, focussed on technologies, features, and apps and will help users to get more out of their battery, memory, and GPU.
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, said that Apple made “deep and broad changes across the system”. “This one is a doozy,” he said.
Federighi said that the new OS X system offer improved resource management, dramatically improved battery life, memory management, and graphics performance.
“Even if you take our 13-inch Macbook Air and all you do is install Mavericks, you’ll get up to an hour more of browsing on a single charge,” Federighi said.
Mavericks also includes a feature called “compressed memory”, which Federighi said can fit 6GB of data into 4GB of system RAM.
These performance improvements are in addition to other new features such as multiple tabs in Finder, Mac’s file explorer application, and file tagging.
Federighi also previously announced that putting an app in full-screen mode will no longer render the desktop on the other monitor useless.
The upgrade to Mavericks is free for Mountain Lion, Lion, and Snow Leopard users, and is available immediately.
Previously, the upgrade for OS X 10.8, or Mountain Lion, cost $19.99.
Macs dating back to 2007 (iMac and MacBook Pro) are supported, Federighi said.
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