{"id":1379,"date":"2013-10-23T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:20:46","slug":"apples-new-mavericks-os-x-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/apples-new-mavericks-os-x-is-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s New Mavericks OS X Is Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Goode at All Things D:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, and by the way: The new OS is free. It\u2019s available in a single-step update, even for Macs from 2007. It launches today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The price of OS X upgrades has been steadily on the downhill (10.8 was AUD$20.99, Lion was AUD$31.99), but going free is a big step.<\/p>\n<p>Also surprising; this update is available for older Macs still on Snow Leopard 10.6. The full list is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)<\/li>\n<li>MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)<\/li>\n<li>MacBook Pro (Mid\/Late 2007 or newer)<\/li>\n<li>MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)<\/li>\n<li>Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)<\/li>\n<li>Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got an older Mac lying around go check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/osx\/specs\/\" target=\"_blank\">minimum system requirements<\/a>\u00a0for yourself. You may be surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Goode at All Things D: Oh, and by the way: The new OS is free. It\u2019s available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,199,17,80,16],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}