There are also no retail versions, because you get the OS with the computer. Skipping versions didn't affect price you pay for the version you're installing (pay nothing in the case of Mavericks) and it will install over and upgrade what you have.
There is no distinction between full and upgrade. Haven't heard anyone downloading it on another computer and copying it to qualified hardware running 10.5 (10.4 predates all qualified hardware). So the simple case is any computer from the past four years running 10.6 or later. (2) It's distributed via the Mac App Store, which was introduced in (late) 10.6 Snow Leopard. An exception: Mac Mini Mid 2007 is Core 2, but not supported, since it retained the Intel GMA 950 GPU from predecessors earliest supported Mini is Early 2009. So that's i3/i5/i7, Core 2 - but not just "Core", which is 32-bit. They've been pretty standard for five or six years now. Two factors: (1) You need an Intel 64-bit CPU.
#INTEL GMA 950 MAVERICKS FULL VERSION#
is there an update version and a full version of the OS a la windows? What is the is the upgrade policy like: is upgrading from 10.7 to 10.8 cheaper than from 10.6 to 10.8, i.e. Just out of curiosity (since I don't use OS X myself): what versions of OS X does this upgrade? Do you need the latest (paid) upgrade or will this upgrade older systems as well? They have done it before, and no doubt in the next 10 years they'll do it again.
#INTEL GMA 950 MAVERICKS FOR FREE#
Apple makes their money on the hardware and they make so much money overall that they can afford to give the OS away for free - this time. I don't think the update's price has anything to do with Linux or any other company. And Windows 8 was how much? How much was 7? How about Vista and XP? Sure, when you ignore all facts and reason, it's easy to come to such conclusions. Likely they were starting to see too much fragmentation in they installed based and they want to push users to an OS integrated with their online store. I don't think this reason came into consideration when Apple decided to make this OS free. There's a huge amount of free (as in gratis not as in freedom) software from Redmond. Windows is for most intents free with a new computer and gets many years of free upgrades (see Windows 8.1). The one looking out of step was actually Apple. This is a deeply cynical move, and one that will exert pressure on MS's core revenue streams over time. They're giving it away for free because between them, Google, and open source, Microsoft starts to look out of step actually charging for software.