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    Newsletter Issue #715: Will the OS X Mavericks Upgrade Be Easy?

    August 12th, 2013

    Apple hasn’t made an official statement. But according to published reports about the developer betas of OS X Mavericks, it appears that any Mac that can run OS X Mountain Lion can be upgraded to the forthcoming OS release. What this means is that if you’re using OS 10.8, you shouldn’t have much to worry […]


    Is Apple Finally Ready to Repair OS X Interface Problems?

    December 4th, 2012

    While Lion and Mountain line seem to be reliable enough, a number of Mac users prefer to stick with Snow Leopard, 10.6, which was released in 2009. The critics suggest this is the Apple version of Microsoft’s Windows XP dilemma. There’s a perfectly good OS, but the newer versions aren’t so tempting or compelling, for […]


    The Mountain Lion Report: Has the Ardor Cooled?

    October 3rd, 2012

    While Apple only rarely releases official figures on OS adoption rates, there are ways to find out, roughly speaking, through third-party surveys of Web activity. The sampling may not be as exact, say, as a Gallup Poll, but the numbers ought to show rough trends. One of those tracking firms, Net Applications, analyzes data from […]


    The OS 10.8.1 Update: Is That All There Is?

    August 24th, 2012

    On Thursday, Apple released the first maintenance update for Mountain Lion, coming just over four weeks after the release of 10.8. This rapid schedule is pretty much par for the course. With every version of OS X, a fixer-upper has arrived a short time after the point-zero release. Now there have been several issues reported […]