[LINK] Of Walled Gardens and Their Dangers

[Frank O'Connor]

Yeah Jim ...

I would.

Just pay attention to those caveats ... slightly slower I/O speed, the need to leave it alone for about 24 hours to work out the file system and other glitches (if you assessed the upgrade prior to the file system and other maintenance it would get a fail, but trust me it improves dramatically after its done all the scripted maintenance), and you probably won't even notice 95% of the little glitches I do if you're mostly just using it for web browsing. Maverick imported all my browser and network settings without a problem.

As a (pretty compelling) bonus you get the latest version of iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) for free - downloadable through the App store, and all the latest iApps as well. That makes a pretty powerful argument for updating on its own.

Beware if you use iBooks on an iDevice - which was what got my 'walled garden' rumination going.  Apple screwed that up. Anyway, as a reader on the Mac I don't find iBooks for the Mac particularly compelling .... it's a low end ePub or PDF reader, there's plenty of better ones to choose from. It's just a pity Apple made it such a core app for content management of the iBooks libraries on all devices.

Just my 2 cents worth ...
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On 1 Nov 2013, at 2:41 pm, Jim Birch <planetjim at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1 November 2013 14:10, Frank O'Connor <francisoconnor3 at bigpond.com>wrote:
> 
>> Well ... except for:
> 
> 
> So, you'd recommend the upgrade for our more or less stock living room
> mac?  About 3 years old IIRC, basically used for web browsing.
> 
> - Jim
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