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Title: Yosemite Beta program
Post by: Paddy on June 05, 2014, 02:42:35 PM

If you're interested in/curious about the next iteration of OS X, you can sign up for the public beta program. First one million users...

https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ (BTW - despite what the Ars Technica article below says, the public beta isn't available for download just yet. Developers who've paid to be in Apple's developer program can download it now)

And how to install it on a test partition: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/06/how-t...eta/?comments=1

I'll probably put it on an external USB 3.0 drive...

Title: Yosemite Beta program
Post by: jchuzi on June 05, 2014, 03:36:28 PM

And some tips: How to safely test the OS X Yosemite beta

Title: Yosemite Beta program
Post by: Xairbusdriver on June 05, 2014, 05:04:03 PM

And a handy list of supported hardware: <Will your Mac run OS X 10.10 Yosemite?>
Basically, if you can run Mavericks, you can run Yosemite.
The list is composed of the motherboard ID and the model. The motherboard ID is easily obtained by pasting in the follow line into Terminal:

CODE

ioreg -l | grep "board-id" | awk -F\" '{print $4}'

You can then look at the list at the linked page. If you'd rather not use Terminal, simply option-click the Apple menu and "System Information" will pop up and you should see "Model Identifier:" as the first item with "Hardware" selected (default).

Note that the list may not be complete since there is no listing for certain MacPro models (5,1)!