Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Apple offers free new OS for Mac - The Mundo.es

Apple users may have the latest operating system from Apple for Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks free. This was announced during the presentation of the new products of the company, Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Software Engineering. The latest installment OS now available at no charge to any Mac users with versions after 2007.

Besides being free, the system includes a notification window, complete maps and iBooks integration, an updated Safari and stronger integration of iCloud. “We will revolutionize the prices,” said Federighi to announce that Mavericks will be available for free on the App Store from Tuesday .

The company announced reductions in their MacBook Pro The new MacBook Pro 13-inch is now $ 200 cheaper, with a price of $ 1,299. While the 15-inch stays at $ 1,999. For its part, the new MacPro will be available in December for $ 2,999.

also presents new versions of the iPad, to defend its position in the tablet market, threatened by smaller, cheaper devices. Among them has announced an iPad Air, twice more powerful than its predecessor, lighter and thinner.

Continuing its policy of free, the company has announced that iLife applications spend from now to be free and come installed on mobile devices with iOS and Mac OS X. These applications include iMovie, iPhoto and Garageband , which also just been redesigned by Apple for the occasion, including new functions designed among other things to take advantage of new features of the iPhone 5.

For example, since iPhoto can order an actual physical album, so that now the Apple photo app extends the real world. The company has also revealed that Garageband includes digitized versions of instruments played by stars like Eric Clapton . Meanwhile, iMovie has also undergone a design change to suit iOS 7. It has also added new effects and options to leverage inter alia slowmotion camera that has the iPhone 5S camera.

tablet market is booming. It is expected that the number of units sold increased by 53.4% ??this year, according to estimates released by research firm Gartner.

On the other hand, the analyst firm said Carolina Milanesi “versus last year’s trend, expect the holiday season to focus primarily on small tablets “. Examples are the Amazon Kindle Fire or the Google Nexus 7 popular both.

In fact, these devices have been losing ground to the iPad, but accounted for just over one third of global sales in the second quarter, according to IDC statistics.

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