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Is Yours Good Enough to take on the Mavericks?

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Apple will release their new operating system OS X 10.9 Mavericks between September-November this year.

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At this stage of the game the new OSX will run on pretty much the same machines as its predecessor OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. You’ll need a 64bit Intel processor, 8GBs of free disk space – if upgrading as appose to clean install min. of OSX 10.6.7 required plus 2GB of RAM.

The Good

  • iMac – all models from mid 2007, iMac 7,1 – 12,1
  • MacBook 5,1 – 7,1
  • MacBook Pro  3,1 – 8,3
  • MacBookAir 2,1 – 4,2
  • Mac Mini 3,1 – 5,3
  • Mac Pro  3,1 – 5,1
  • Xserve 3,1

Which means most devices made prior to 2008 won’t be able to run it.

The Bad

– OS X 10.9 Mavericks won’t run on –

  • iMac 4,1 – 6,1
  • MacBook  1,1 – 4,1
  • MacBook Pro 1,1 – 2,1
  • MacBookAir 1,1
  • Mac Mini 1,1 – 2,1
  • Mac Pro  1,1 – 2,1
  • Xserve  1,1 – 2,1

How you find your Mac Model Number

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>Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info … > System Report … Model Identifier

 

Or for you terminal freaks…

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