To put Apple's new OS through its paces, I installed Mavericks on a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display and a 2.3GHz Core i7 CPU ( at Amazon). A new organizational tool, Tags, works the way tagging in photo apps has worked for years: attach a text keyword to any file, and you'll be able to find it quickly in a Finder sidebar. Safari not only gets a redesign, but also a speed boost, a new Shared Links feature, and more standards support.Īlso improved are some system tools, including multiple display support, notifications, the Finder, and Keychain password management, which now can sync among all your Macs and iOS devices. And a pair of longstanding Mac OS X features have been considerably improved-Calendar and Safari. In fact, the company notes more than 200 new features.Ī pair of completely new apps-iBooks, and Maps-have made the leap from iOS to the Mac. While it's true that Mavericks is not the OS paradigm shift represented by Microsoft's Windows 8 (itself recently updated for free to a much improved Windows 8.1), Mavericks does bring quite a few new capabilities to the Mac. Lion was $29.99, and Mountain Lion went for a very reasonable $19.99, but at its fall event in San Francisco, Apple dropped a bombshell by announcing that its new desktop operating system, OS X 10.9 Mavericks would be a free download. With prices steadily dropping, it was almost inevitable.

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