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Apple Gives Developers Access to OS X Mavericks

At this morning's WWDC keynote in San Francisco, Apple announced the latest iteration of OS X, Mavericks, which features a new tabbed finder, independent handling of multiple displays, tagging, and a Safari redesign.

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As promised, Apple has begun offering developers beta access to Mavericks. The beta software can be downloaded from Apple’s developer site and devs can also access the new iOS 7 beta as well. According to Apple, Mavericks is its most power efficient operating system yet.

While developers can get immediate access to Mavericks, the general public will need to wait for the software’s official release, which is expected to take place in the fall.

Related Forum: OS X Mavericks

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Top Rated Comments

tevion5 Avatar
172 months ago
Most serious proper OSX release since Snow Leopard.

I am very pleased. Post-Jobsian Apple is finally alive.
Score: 28 Votes (Like | Disagree)
172 months ago
I have been on the developers site and OS X preview site on apple and I can't find the requirements. I would like to know.
It's in the seed note.

As I posted before in the other thread:

Developer Preview System Requirements:

The OS X v10.9 Developer Preview supports the following Macs:
- iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
- MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
- Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
Score: 26 Votes (Like | Disagree)
172 months ago
No more big cats :(
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
172 months ago
Who's going to upload the new wallpapers, pretty please? :)
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Peace Avatar
172 months ago
I can't express how glad I am to see this.
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
172 months ago
Mavericks

hardy har, this is what I though of. No flames, it's all in good fun!

Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)