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Participants in the public beta will be able to install the final edition in place of the preview when the former ships next month. Most Macs will be able to upgrade immediately upon Yosemite's launch: According to analytics vendor Net Applications, approximately 67% of all Macs will be running Mavericks by the end of this month. MacBooks from late 2008 (aluminum case) or early 2009 (plastic case) forward MacBook Pros from mid- and late-2007 and on MacBook Airs from late 2008 and later Mac Minis from early 2009 and after and Mac Pros from early 2008 and later. Those machines can include iMacs from the mid-2007 model on 13-in. The public beta can be installed only on Macs running OS X Mavericks. This summer's Yosemite public beta was the first for an Apple operating system since 2000, when the company charged customers $29.95 for the privilege of running an early version of what later became OS X 10.0, better known as Cheetah. The text message handoff will not be implemented in iOS 8 off the bat Apple has said that an update to the mobile operating system will add the functionality in October. Other Continuity components include receipt of text messages on Macs, taking and receiving phone calls from the Mac, and an instant ad hoc Wi-Fi hotspot triggered when an iPhone is near a connection-less Mac.

New features in OS X and iOS, called 'Continuity,' will allow customers who own both Macs and iPhones or iPads to hand off in-progress tasks, like a half-finished document or email, from one device to another.

An alternate explanation is that Apple wanted to refresh the Yosemite public beta before Wednesday's appearance of iOS 8.