![]() ![]() ![]() After initial woes interoperating with Gmail, the 10.9.2 update finally allows users of that mail system to use Mavericks' excellent mail client. Hover over an address in a Mail message, and a map appears. In the Calendar app, when you create an event and type in a location that OS X recognizes as an address, a map appears on the panel with details of the event, complete with a miniature weather report for the location. Hover over a street address in the Contacts app, and a link appears, offering to show the address in Maps. ![]() What makes Maps stand out from Google Maps in OS X is its tight integration with the rest of Apple's apps. ![]() The Maps app, as you'd expect, is an elegant alternative to Google Maps, and Apple has ironed out most, but not all, of the glitches that afflicted Maps when it was introduced in iOS. The New and the Improved The most visible changes in Mavericks are the two new apps, Maps and iBooks, both familiar to most OS X users from their iOS versions. I installed it on a 2009 MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion, and the installation, after I finished downloading, took about 20 minutes. Mavericks, like Mountain Lion, is available only by download, not on DVD or a USB stick. Any Mac that can run Mountain Lion can also run Mavericks, and you install the new version by downloading it from the App Store. If you buy a new Mac, you'll get Mavericks installed on it. Apple has stopped naming OS X versions for big cats and started naming them for California landmarks-Mavericks is a famous surfing site, and the default desktop image in Mavericks is a spectacular wave. The most obvious change between Mountain Lion and Mavericks is in their names. Other mostly-invisible improvements include major enhancements to security so that apps and browser plug-ins are more tightly controlled than before. I can't test this, but Apple claims that some of these new technologies can reduce CPU usage by 72 percent, and I've certainly noticed that battery life on the 2012 MacBook Pro that I've been using with Mavericks has noticeably better battery life than it did under Mountain Lion. Meanwhile, deep below the surface, new power-management features extend the battery life on your laptop. ![]()
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