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anomaly100Oct 14, 2010
I just bought a Mac & I am loving it. I'm older than dirt, so I remember LONG AGO, before teh Internet, when their computers were called the "Apple." It didn't do much but everyone in the neighborhood went to what's his name's house to see it. And....just look at it.
That concludes my history lesson, such as it is.
novenatorOct 15, 2010
I converted last year, and love everything except for how the OS handles photos. It's almost as if they deliberately make it cumbersome to "encourage" users to use iPhoto, which I can't get to organize my collections properly.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
newbill123Oct 15, 2010
Sorry, but his article is full of inaccuracies...
It will be June 2011 before the 10th anniversary of the final version (10.0.4) of Cheetah passes (not March 2010 as the article states).
Puma 10.1 (not Jaguar) was released 6 months after Cheetah (10.0) in September 2001.
Jaguar wasn't actually released until August 2002 (not Sept 2001).
The funeral for Mac OS 9 was in May 2002, but the goal was to announce the debut of Jaguar 10.2 (not Cheetah 10.0).
The trend of naming OS X after "Big Cats" were the in-house code names. The packaging and marketing started using these names publicly with Jaguar 10.2 (not Panther 10.3). A spotted faux fur box, t-shirt, and refrigerator magnets promoted Jaguar.
Panther (10.3) was announced in June and released in October 2003 (not August 2002).
Tiger (10.4) was released in April 2005 (not August). It was PowerPC only until 10.4.4 until Intel Macs were released in January 2006.
Leopard (10.5) is omitted completely from this list (Oct 2007)
Snow Leopard (10.6) was released in August 2009 (not Aug 2008)
It's also disingenuous to claim a heritage of PowerPC back to System 7.1.2 in March 1994. Even after omitting other PowerPC era OS's like Newton and A/UX 3 "Penelope", Apple didn't try hard to keep old computers going (unlike the 10+ year run of the Apple IIe). Any PowerPC hardware before Jan 1999 had to have an expensive G3 CPU upgrade or be put out to pasture with Mac OS 9.2.2, OS X Server, or OS X 10.0 Cheetah.
esw13Oct 15, 2010
I thought Unix was free....
batguanoOct 15, 2010
Inaccurate and incomplete. No mention of Puma or Leopard, dates are all wrong, and Jaguar was the first to use the cat code name in its marketing.
Really, any of this info could have been found in a 5 minute google search. Gearlog, welcome to my block list.
sp1kenarfOct 15, 2010
Someone was paid to write that crap fiesta?
blitzcraig7Oct 15, 2010
This is indeed inaccurate and incomplete. Gaping holes exist to make this a viable article.