Can My Mac Run OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Apple today made OS X 10.9 Mavericks [13A476u] available to developers. For the rest of us, the question of the hour is “Can my Mac run OS X 10.9 Mavericks?” Surprisingly, if your Mac is OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion compatible, the answer is yes!

OS X v10.9 supports the following Macs:

• iMac — Mid-2007 or later

• MacBook

— 13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008

— 13-inch, Early 2009 or later

• MacBook Pro

— 13-inch, Mid-2009 or later

– 15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later

— 17-inch, Late 2007 or later

• MacBook Air — Late 2008 or later

• Mac Mini — Early 2009 or later

• Mac Pro — Early 2008 or later

• Xserve — Early 2009

OS X 10.9 requires 8GB of free hard disk space and I suspect it needs 4GB RAM to function smoothly, like Mountain Lion, though 2GB is perhaps the minimum requirement.

And, just for giggles, let’s compare the above to the OS X Mountain Lion compatibility list:

• iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)

• MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)

• MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)

• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)

• Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)

• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)

• Xserve (Early 2009)

It’s pretty cool that a whole range of six-year-old Macs will be compatible with OS X 10.9 Mavericks — Thanks, Apple!