Advanced technologies: New technologies like Timer Coalescing, App Nap, Safari Power Save, and Compressed Memory will make Mavericks run even faster on lower spec machines.Tags: You will be able to quickly add tags to files.Finder tabs: Finder now has Tabs like Safari.Notifications: These are now interactive enabling you to reply to messages with a notification, for example.This makes full-screen working much easier.

Multiple Displays: Each display has its own Menu bar and Dock.

All your passwords will be stored securely in iCloud and shared across machines.

Safari: a new sidebar will make it easier to visit bookmarks and access Reading List.

New-look Calendar: streamlined interface and now has Facebook events integration.

You can plan trips and send the results to iOS

iBooks: brings books from the iTunes Store and iBooks in iCloud to your Mac.

If you haven’t updated from Lion to Mountain Lion it’s worth noting that the new Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks upgrade will introduce you to all of the features from Mountain Lion plus quite a few new ones: The major new feature in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is the expansion and further integration of iCloud, which is now deeply integrated throughout the system.

Right now we’d suggest waiting for Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks but it’s now a stable release so a good upgrade if you put it off earlier due to compatibility concerns. And in this sense Mac OS X 10.8 remains a triumphant success. Notes, Reminders, Messages and Game Center are all designed to enable you to seamlessly move back and forth between iOS and OS X devices. Perhaps of more importance are all the subtle interactions of iCloud, which bring together your Mac with your iOS devices. We like the implementation of Notification Center. Some of the more extreme elements of the skeuomorphic interface are a little odd, and the knowledge that it’s all being replaced with Flat design in iOS 7 shows that Apple wasn’t really happy with it either.

It’s shame to see that Messages still isn’t as reliable as we’d like though. Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was a solid update with a great collection of new features.

There are a few inconsistencies in the design, Documents In The Cloud isn’t intuitive after years of Finder usage.

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