Apple : In Depth: OS X Mavericks compatibility: will your Mac take it? |
- In Depth: OS X Mavericks compatibility: will your Mac take it?
- WWDC 2013: First impressions: Mac Pro
- Gary Marshall: "Can't innovate any more, my ass"
- WWDC 2013: Apple announces iOS 7 release date and devices
| In Depth: OS X Mavericks compatibility: will your Mac take it? Posted:  Apple has announced OS X Mavericks, the next step for the Mac OS after Mountain Lion. But will your current Mac take the update? The first thing to know is that you will definitely need to have OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or later because you'll need to download it via the Mac App Store. You'll need 10.6.7 to be precise. That's actually less of a requirement than Mountain Lion, which needed OS X 10.6.8 to install. The list of Macs that will install Mavericks is pretty much the same as those that were able to use OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, so we're talking 64-bit Intel-based Macs. Here's the full list of Macs and OS X Mavericks compatibility:
Unfortunately those Macs that won't be able to upgrade are numerous, including all the plastic model MacBooks before 2008, pre mid 2007 MacBook Pros and Mac Mini/iMac and most notably the original MacBook Air. You know, the one that came out of that famous envelope. In terms of graphics support this means anything with the ATI Radeon X1600 or an Intel GMA 950 or x3100 integrated graphics cards are dead meat. Even the 2006 and 2007 versions of the Mac Pro won't be able to install OS X 10.9, just as they couldn't install OS X 10.8. Obviously all these details are based on the OS X 10.9 Developer Preview and may change for the full release. |
| WWDC 2013: First impressions: Mac Pro Posted:  While Microsoft and Sony were busy readying next generation console reveals on Monday, Apple was prepping for a next-gen reveal all its own. During its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled the long-awaited new Mac Pro desktop, complete with a drastic and stylish redesign. Of course, style isn't everything, and the Mac Pro packs a lot of punch into its diminutive cylindrical frame, which Apple claimed would provide "breakthrough performance" at one-eighth the size of current Mac Pros desktops. Let's take a closer look at just what makes the new Mac Pro a desktop worth getting excited about. Mac Pro: what's under the hood?
Apple wasn't squeamish about breaking the Mac Pro open to give everyone a glimpse at the innards powering the 9.9-inch desktop. The Mac Pro brings the noise with Intel Xeon E5 processors, which in turn are capable of supporting up to 12 core configurations to deliver two times the floating point performance. Coupled with a pair of AMD FirePro workstation-class GPUs, the new Mac Pro is more than ready to handle up to seven teraflops of computations, and delivers speeds more than two times faster than current generation Mac Pros.
More impressively, Apple is including 1,866MHz DDR3 RAM in the revamped Mac Pro, which gives it the ability to deliver up to 60GBps of memory bandwidth. With that kind of power, the Mac Pro is a filmmaker's dream, as it's able to render full-resolution 4K video, while also working out rendering effects on the side. All of this hardware is built around a unified thermal core, which will give the Mac Pro the advantage of distributing that thermal capacity across all the processors evenly. Mac Pro: Ports galore
A desktop wouldn't be any good without a plethora of ports, and the Mac Pro has them in spades. There are six Thunderbolt 2 ports, each capable of supporting six daisy-chained devices, meaning you could have up to 36 different external devices hooked up to the Mac Pro with ease. Add in the fact Thunderbolt 2 allows for up to 20GBs of bandwidth to each plugged device, and you've got yourself outstanding external performance almost unheard of to this point. Even if you don't have a wealth of Thunderbolt 2-compatible external hard drives or displays, the Mac Pro's ports are completely backwards compatible with existing Thunderbolt connections, meaning you won't have to upgrade every last device you already have.
Mac Pro: Apple murky on release dateWhile specifics about an exact drop date and price for the Mac Pro haven't been divulged, Apple is planning on releasing the black beauty later this year. It's been a while since Apple's dropped a desktop this revolutionary on consumers, and we can't wait to see what the Mac Pro is actually capable when we get our hands on one. After all we've seen so far, we're inclined to believe Apple when it calls the Mac Pro "the most radical Mac yet."
For a roundup of all the biggest WWDC 2013 keynote highlights, check out the video below: |
| Gary Marshall: "Can't innovate any more, my ass" Posted:  In the late 1990s I became quite obsessed with a brilliant wee program called WindowBlinds, which enabled you to replace the Windows UI with whatever you wanted. My PC spent some time being a Mac, and being a BeOS box, and being a made-up machine from the future - but for all my fiddling I couldn't change the important thing: it's not how a product looks that matters, but how it works. WindowBlinds could change the former, but not the latter. I was reminded of WindowBlinds today when I watched Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote presentation. On the face of it, iOS 7 looks like a reskin, but there's much more to it than that. Apple has done more than change the colours around and strip the shininess from the app icons. It's clearly informed by WebOS, Android, Windows Phone and the jailbreakers, but Jonathan Ive is no magpie swooping around to steal anything shiny he sees. The iOS team has clearly sweated the small stuff to produce something that isn't just pretty to look at, but that's genuinely going to make iOS nicer and more fun to use. iOS 7 rings my "want it!" bell, as did the new MacBook Air, the terribly-named OS X Mavericks and the new and no doubt hilariously expensive Mac Pro. Keynotes can be pretty tedious things, but bar the stomach-churning demo fail at the beginning - and I do wonder why a developer got to show off robot toy cars, no matter how clever, at all - this one was mainly killer and very little filler. Still doomed, obviouslyBack in April I wrote about the flurry of Apple Is Doomed stories, and argued that "claiming that Apple doesn't have anything in the pipeline is even more ridiculous. There were six years between the iPod and iPhone. We're supposed to write off Apple because it's been a whole six months since the iPad mini?" One month later there's a brand new and completely unexpected-looking Mac Pro (wags have already dubbed it the iBin and the Tube), a whole new version of iOS, a new version of OS X, Haswell MacBook Airs, a music discovery app, iWork for iCloud, new versions of iWork (for the desktop) and iOS for cars. As Phil Schiller put it: "Can't innovate any more my ass." What was interesting about the keynote wasn't just the products or Apple's obvious confidence, though. The politics were interesting too. Android received plenty of kickings, but with the exception of the inevitable Windows 8 dig Microsoft escaped relatively unscathed - and when Tim Cook unleashed Tim's World of Numbers as he so loves to do, the numbers were used to hammer Google, not Microsoft. By an amazing coincidence, Apple's partner for Siri's web search results turned out to be not Google, but Bing. I might be reading too much into things, but I felt that Apple's relationship with Facebook showed signs of cooling too. It won't silence the doomsayers, but I reckon this keynote offered everything. We had products. We had politics. We even have a mystery to solve, because all the iOS 7 demos ran on iPhones, but not on iPads. What's Apple hiding? |
| WWDC 2013: Apple announces iOS 7 release date and devices Posted:  Unveiling the highly-anticipated iOS 7 at WWDC today, Apple also announced when we can expect to get our eager fingers on the bold new refresh. iOS 7 will be bringing its flat new design to developers from today, with the beta SDK version available right now. The rest of us will have to wait a little longer though, as Apple said the complete iOS 7 will be arriving "this fall". As for which devices you'll be able to run it on, the new OS is available on iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini and fifth generation iPod touch. iOS faceliftiOS 7 has been given an entire overhaul with a flat new design that still retains the familiar layout. Apple described it today as "an exciting new beginning". Of course, it's not just about the new look. Apple announced a bunch of new features including iTunes Radio, AirDrop, Control Center and improved multitasking,
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