Apple seeds OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 7
The next version of the Mac operating system, OS X 10.9, is officially labeled as OS X Mavericks. Mavericks, named after an epic surfing spot in northern California, has a lot of new features, but also represents a change in naming conventions away from the familiar cat themes. In future versions of OS X will follow the same naming convention and all be named after inspirational places throughout California, where Apple is located.
OS X Mavericks Features
• Many of the OS X Mavericks features are aimed at power users, some of the feature highlights include:
• Finder has tabs support with drag and drop, window merging, and full-screen support
• Tags come to the Mac for searching meta data, tags show up in the sidebar
• Multi-display enhancements: support for full screen, menus span multiple displays, Docks can be summoned from any display, spaces span independently across multiple monitors
• Significant performance improvements, including compressed memory, AppNap, Timer Coalescing, OpenGL 4, accelerated smoothed scrolling
• AppNap suspends and resumes background apps and processes on the fly
• Safari 7 includes major under-the-hood improvements, and includes a social stream and link sharing feature that watches your social networks for interesting links
• iCloud keychain keeps track of all passwords and logins, stores them encrypted in iCloud and remembers all logins, Safari will auto-suggest ultra strong passwords
