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Each release I'm as excited (or more) to read Siracusa's review as I am to actually try the new OS. Keep up the good work.

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Yeah his reviews are very good. I do feel it would be nice to have a bit of a comparison section at the end though, to discuss some of the more technical details within the operating system landscape. For example timer coalescing/race to sleep is something I know Windows 8 has and I assume Linux, and the App Nap sounds like a more advanced version of the Metro tombstoning, and I think Linux can do memory compression but Sprite Kit sounds rather unrivalled by first parties. I would love to have his views on it all.

How do you even read the whole review? 24 pages on a single OS update?? Seriously?

Easy. You skim what you aren't interested in.

It's a great review. If you care about your tools, do yourself the favor.

You take an hour of your time.

It's a great review. Every page is not the same length, and some you can skim over if you're not interested.

I read every page. Great work. Really. It's a great read.

Seriously? Thank your lucky stars you were born in the correct generation. You used to have to read a page of text just to get advertised to. http://imgur.com/ljQZgEJ

readability will render it to one single page

Some enjoy the depth... I do.

If you'd prefer an overview, plenty of alternatives at places like cnet or macrumours or whatever.

For the last OS I loaded it up on my iPad and then took it with me for a weekend, reading it whenever I had downtime (we were doing a lot of shopping so there was a lot of downtime).

Managed to finish it up by Sunday. I'll probably do the same this time.

Easy install on my ML 2011 iMac i5 6970GPU system.

Initial impression, scrolling certainly feels better. Do wish they would leave my desktop background to what I had it set to. Other than that, being an OS upgrade where I don't notice anything odd is key to my satisfaction.

5+ gig download, took about forty minutes, somewhat less I think as I walked off, to install.

That's strange - my desktop background wasn't changed by the install. Perhaps you were using a ML-included desktop image that was removed in Mavericks?

After downloading, it took roughly 20 mins to install.

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