The next version of the Mac operating system, OS X 10.9, is officially labeled as OS X Mavericks. Mavericks, named after an epic surfing spot in northern California, has a lot of new features, but also represents a change in naming conventions away from the familiar cat themes. In future versions of OS X will follow the same naming convention and all be named after inspirational places throughout California, where Apple is located.<br /><br />OS X Mavericks Features<br />• Many of the OS X Mavericks features are aimed at power users, some of the feature highlights include:<br />• Finder has tabs support with drag and drop, window merging, and full-screen support<br />• Tags come to the Mac for searching meta data, tags show up in the sidebar<br />• Multi-display enhancements: support for full screen, menus span multiple displays, Docks can be summoned from any display, spaces span independently across multiple monitors<br />• Significant performance improvements, including compressed memory, AppNap, Timer Coalescing, OpenGL 4, accelerated smoothed scrolling<br />• AppNap suspends and resumes background apps and processes on the fly<br />• Safari 7 includes major under-the-hood improvements, and includes a social stream and link sharing feature that watches your social networks for interesting links<br />• iCloud keychain keeps track of all passwords and logins, stores them encrypted in iCloud and remembers all logins, Safari will auto-suggest ultra strong passwords