Mavericks VS Yosemite

As we know, Mavericks is the tenth operating system released by Apple Inc. which was announced on June 10, 2013, at WWDC 2013. And Yosemite is the eleventh OS X and was announced on June 2, 2014, at WWDC 2014. Although the Yosemite hasn’t been released to consumers until now, most of OS X users consider it a pleasure to be among the first to read the changed place of Yosemite comparing with Mavericks.

Of course, the first attractive place brought by Yosemite is the new application icons. To be more specifically, those new flat designs are more visual. Here, take five pairs of icons as examples to show the differences between Mavericks and Yosemite. Note: Mavericks is on the left and Yosemite is on the right.

Continuity feature of Yosemite the other main advantage which make a perfect connection between Mac and iOS devices when users are signed into iCloud. That is to say, when your iPhone or iPad is near your Mac, the feature of Handoff lets you easily pass files between devices when they are closed to one another. At the same time, you can send SMS or MMS messages directly from your Mac and make or receive iPhone calls using your Mac as a speakerphone. Comparing to Mavericks, this function is pretty more applicable and practical.

Moreover, a new update to Mail allows you to send large files without bumping up against your email client’s storage limits. The supported videos, images or files are up to 5GB in size of Mail Drop. You can send an encrypted document to the other Mac users. If they are using the other devices, they all receive a notification with a download link. There are more options for communicating with friends and family when delivering the messages. And some updated details of Mail are more considerate for Mac users like creating soundbites so that you can send or listen to audio clips right in Messages.

Because lots of changes have been made about Yosemite, Apple Inc introduced the OS X Beta Program, which gives Mac uses an opportunity to access to Yosemite early and submit their feedback.

Pay attention: system requirements of Yosemite are:

• Mid-2007 or newer iMac
• MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
• Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
• Xserve (Early 2009)

After installed, try to play video or DVD on it with the help of Yosemite DVD Ripper.