CompatibiltyĪs you can see from the above screenshot after installing Mavericks, I reinstalled the applications I used in Mountain Lion. It is a brilliantly fast OS without sacrificing features. First impressions of Mavericks: They have achieved it. OS X 10.9 Mavericks attempts to bring back the speed of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with the features of 10.8 Mountain Lion. This is one of the earliest Macs to support Mountain Lion, so I wasn’t holding out much hope my Mac would see the next version, but by not increasing hardware requirements, mine thankfully can run it. I am running it on a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo Early 2009 MacBook with 4 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce 9400M graphics chipset with 256 MB video memory. Set it off and let it do its thing until prompted to input your details. Installation was as straightforward as ever. The process for creating a bootable working USB flash drive is not as straightforward as with Mountain Lion.

I have had my MacBook since Leopard and upgraded to every version after that, so felt it needed a fresh install to clean out rogue and unneeded files and apps.

It is possible to do a clean install, which I chose to do. You download it from the App Store, and it upgrades over your existing Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion installation. Since then, the price has dropped, but I doubt anyone expected Apple to offer the latest version totally free. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was the last high priced version of OS X back in 2007. The second best piece of news is that Apple are offering it for free. The last time this happened was in 2002 when Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar was released running on the same hardware as Mac OS X 10.1 Puma. Apple hasn’t increased the system requirements. The best news is that if your Mac can run OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, it can run Mavericks. If ever a single word summed up an OS, wow sums up Mavericks. Here are my initial impressions.įirstly, can I say wow. Video: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.OS X 10.9 Mavericks has just been released by Apple.Any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted - CSS is not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), BDMV folder (unencrypted), and some.HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

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