Launched yesterday, October 22nd, after the San Francisco Apple event, the update can be downloaded by all Macintosh users through the App Store for free.
“We want our customers to have our latest software,” said Chief Executive Tim Cook, to explain the surprising occurrence.
With over 200 hundred new features, the software has been highly anticipated since the Apple summer event last June. Some of its key enhancements include:
iBooks and Maps have been added into the Macintosh’s built-in applications, allowing, among other things, the unlimited syncing and buying of books through the iBooks library.
Serving as MapQuest currently does – giving you directions, finding the nearest points of interest, and providing honest reviews through Yelp.com – Maps on desktop allows your phone searches to be transferred to the bigger, broader screen of your computer. In other words, it’ll allow you to start a search on your phone and finish it on your Mac.
And speaking of easy, Mavericks brings along a problem solver for all its users.
Introducing Tags and Finder Tabs, the two most useful features since elongated battery life, which can help organize anything from schoolwork to selfies. Similarly, Tags help you find a file, photo, song, anything – as long as it’s in your computer, you can find it.
Also, Finder Tabs allow you to keep multiple Finder windows in one organized screen. This way, the usual clutter of Finder windows won’t keep you from organizing your stuff (or from opening your computer), and you’ll actually get stuff done.
There will also be a really helpful Notification upgrade – one that will sync notifications across all your devices. This way, when you answer a message on your iPhone, it won’t ask you to answer it again on your Mac and your iPad. But of course, if the message happens to come during your Mac time, Apple has integrated an update for that too. Now you’ll be able to answer a message without opening the Messages app; simply click the notification and type away.
And last but not least – iCloud Keychain. An application that will keep any password, credit card, or username you wish locked away and ready to be used whenever. It’ll fill your eBay purchase info or Twitter login with a single command, and keep your privacy with an impenetrable 256-bit AES encryption, so that the only information given away is the one you want to share.
The features above are only the most anticipated, but Apple has 200 others which will blow mind, and hardrive, little by little. Battery life extension, for one, is also included in the upgrade. So, go download it now – if you can have it, why not flaunt it?
