

Open a Finder window and navigate to Applications > Install OS X Mavericks. Where Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion cost £25, £20.99 and £13.99, respectively, OS X Mavericks has been made available at zero cost to Mac owners.īefore you get started, you will need to gather together the following: This is particularly useful if you have two or more Macs to upgrade as it means you only have to download the software once. In this tutorial, I will show you two ways to install OS X Mavericks onto a bootable USB drive. If you are on a slower internet connection, then this distribution model is not suiting you. Even a fast ADSL connection and the upgrade can be downloaded reasonably quickly. If you have a superfast fibre connection then this may be of little concern. Mavericks is distrubuted through Apple’s Mac App Store and is a digital download of 5.29GB. OS X Mavericks 10.9 is the latest iteration of Apple’s desktop computer operating system, released to great fanfare at Apple’s Special Event on 22nd October 2013.
