I'm glad they are _finally_ solving the multiple desktop issue, its definitely the most frustrating aspect of OSX. Also, loved how it worked with AppleTV.
Somewhat more technical information found 2 links deep on Apple site <a href="http://images.apple.com/osx/preview/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_Technology_Overview.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://images.apple.com/osx/preview/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_...</a>
Store my keychain on the iCloud, eh? Is this going to be the default behaviour now?<p>If so, I guess I'm abandoning Apple faster than I thought I would, a day or so ago .
Not a lot of technical specificity around "memory compression". <i>Edit:</i> Ok, I stand corrected, somebody's done some research and found the code.<p>Windows 8 does a similar-sounding trick. At some timer interrupts they de-dupe pages and make them copy-on-write when they are identical. I seem to recall also reading that some VM products (VMware?) do this - so if you have a few instances of the same OS, only unique pages end up getting stored.<p>From the presentation I wonder if they're doing this, or if they might be putting the pages through a compression algorithm. (I hear "compression" and I think this, but it seems like that would make page faults needlessly costly.)
Are Goose and Iceman the next releases?<p>Sea Lion was 100x better<p>And Keychain stored in iCloud, yeah, nice try there Apple.<p>Finally - the new MacPro looks like a roll of toilet paper encased in glossy plastic. What is that thing.
Any guesses as to when Apple will drop the "X" from "OS X"? The name "OS Ten" is getting a little long in the tooth. I hear people pronouncing it "OS Ecks" more frequently these days.<p>At the code level, I assume we will live with the 10.x version numbers forever, like Solaris 11 is also "SunOS 5.11".
I'm kind of surprised and amused that they chose the name of an old Ubuntu release (October 2010): <a href="http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/" rel="nofollow">http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/</a>
I really hope iCloud can be disabled in OSX-M. As far as I am concerned iCloud is a disaster. It causes all manner of data loss on iDevices, generally without the user having a choice. For example, my wife lost her entire calendar -all events- just for turning off calendar synchronization. All events had been originally entered through her phone. Somehow iCloud decided to delete anything that was also stored in the cloud, which meant everything. I really don't get the logic behind this behavior. It's really dumb. You never loose user data. So, I don't trust it now. I don't care to have anything to do with it.
Funny thing about the iMac I have, you can't turn off the embedded monitor and just run an external monitor. It seems the new multiple monitor situation doesn't have any call outs for the iMac or anything sensible. I actually think they prevent this specifically in the sense that I should just want a Mac Mini or Apple TV and shouldn't doubt the ability to buy a way out of the problem.