“Free” proved a little too irresistible and I immediately upgraded both Macs in my possession to OS X Mavericks as soon as the download became available yesterday. Unfortunately, the Macbook Air didn’t make it out alive. As you can see from the video above (click to play), it’s become stuck in an endless reboot loop of alternating grey screens, one covered in errors. I’ll probably take the easy way out and hit the Apple Store for an OS restore. The iMac did escape unscathed, although Apple’s sense of time is slightly off (1 minute, 10 minutes, whatev), and my first order of business was removing the new-yet-superfluous Apple Maps and iBooks from the dock.
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Dave, does your Air support internet recovery? Or is that hosed too?
Don't know and there's no recovery thumb drive in the box, so either I lost it or they stopped providing them. No biggie, I just made a noon o'clock appointment at the Apple Store. :) (If you're live in the right areas, Genius Bar is one of the top reasons to go Apple.)
Dave, check out http://lifehacker.com/how-to-create-an-os-x-mavericks-usb-installation-drive-1450280026 - I have not tried it as I don't want to upgrade my work machine quite yet (especially in the hopes of getting a new MBP replacement :) ) but it has instructions on creating a bootable USB drive for Mavericks.