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What is that in cat years?

6 years now and still NO VIRUSES!

It may sound trivial even silly to some other people wishing happy birthday to an operating system, but considering how much time I spend using OS X, how much easier it has made my life, and how much it has helped my career, it isn't silly at all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OS X!!!
And thank you to all the programers and other creative people that made OS X possible. (you to Steve)

When you run out of cat names, will we get Mac OS XI? I think you have only Cougar and Lion left after Leopard (for the commonly recognizable big cats). Lion would be appropriate for the last release. Actually, that timing would be about right for a major transition to the next big thing.

Remember how p a i n f u l l y s l o w it was back then? They've done such a good job making it more efficient with every update. Unlike *some* OS's we know.

It's NeXTSTEP!!!!

video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A


I'm still waiting for Mail to record audio though... :(

It's official... we can now say "Six years and counting! No Viruses, No Adware. No Malware in the wild!"

Happy Birthday OS X!

(magic word - long)

Again, why did they kill Apple Works?

Dynamic memory management, eliminating “out of memory” messages or need to adjust the memory for applications
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I'm using 15" MacBook Pro with 2GB RAM and still frequently get OUT OF MEMORY!

It's amazing how many of those breakthrough features we take for granted these days!

Mac OS X install on one CD? Wow.
Then again I remember having the Mac system, MacPaint, MacWrite, an Imagewriter driver, and room for a document or two on one 400k floppy. Had to wait 22 years for Aperture though because it wouldn't fit on a floppy.

@ ken1w

Onza
Lynx
Bobcat
Ocelot
Caracal
Serval

[then there are the cross breeds...]
Tigon
Liger
etc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_hybrid

Needless to say, Apple could milk this for many many years...

Hano

Baby's growing up. Gee, MDN, look what you did. You got me all sentimental.

But despite the fact it's been 6 years, let's all admit that Mac OS X really kind of, well... sucked until version 10.3. Prior to that, it was terribly slow, lacked some of what we took for granted in Mac OS 9, and was a minor step backward with native applications and device compatibility.

I'd have to say 10.3 was truly the first ready for prime-time Mac OS X which created a reliable, robust, and more innovative set of features for everyday consumer and business usage. Previous versions really ought to be considered more like beta versions if you ask me. With the exception of the nasty influx of viruses that hit Windows XP before SP2, I would have recommended it simply because it had more of what people wanted from an OS at the time.

"Again, why did they kill Apple Works?"

Well, last I looked, it's still alive but being slowly replaced by iWork. The AppleWorks User Group quite some time ago saw the handwriting on the wall and began to support users of both applications. iWork has a way to go to catch up with AppleWorks' features, but what it's doing now it's doing better and better. I think we can anticipate it being a full blown AW replacement within the next 36 months. Hopefully, it will be an MS Office replacement well before that.

I think it's a tribute to AppleWorks that it continued to work as long as it has with almost no updates.

Having said all that, I admit I haven't tried it on my Intel machine. I just assume it still works though, unless someone knows otherwise. It's long been underestimated by most people in what it's capable of doing. Only the AWUG seemed to really probe all that it can do.

There is one other cat name........Pussy!

Apple could move on to something like the names of sharks since they've mostly moved from large cats to larger and more deadly cats (except for Tiger to Leopard)

Who wouldn't want "Tiger" all over again ? Or Great White, Black Tip, Hammerhead, Mako, or Thresher ?

Or maybe bears ?
Koala (although not really bears), Panda, Sun, Black, Brown, Grizzly, Kodiak, and Polar ?

At least that has some caché beyond just the names of the bars the guys in Seattle hung out in

I'd have to say 10.3 was truly the first ready for prime-time Mac OS X

I actually consider Tiger the first ready for prime-time Mac OS X. Reason? 10.4 was the first OS X when Apple announced us developers that the API and KPI were final, no more features and interfaces becoming deprecated or broken with the new version. Remember the applications breaking (no more starting) when installing the next Mac OS X version and requiring us developers to issue updates for the apps as well?

Well, those days are gone since Tiger. That is, the first prime-time Mac OS X. And a very good at that too. What we see in Leopard is frankly outstanding job. Leopard is some big leap forward wrt Tiger. Tiger was ready for prime-time. Leopard is ready for professionals big time.

Leopard will be the watershed of Mac OS X adoption. Apple will be compared to "before Leopard" and "after Leopard" penetration. To make male porn stars blush in shame

> Onza
Lynx
Bobcat
Ocelot
Caracal
Serval

I said "for the commonly recognizable big cats." After you use Tiger, you are not going to call the next one "serval" or "bobcat." That would be pathetic. Cougar and Lion are the only non-lame choices left.

BTW, Happy Birthday. If any Mac OS X developers are reading this, you folks do some great work.

Jim: I jumped on the Mac bandwagon late into Jaguar (10.2), and thought that that was a fine OS. Not sure what you think was wrong with it. So I guess I don't agree with your synopsys that 10.3 was the first Mac OS X version that didn't "suck".

That was then this is now and I want Leopard NOW!!!

"Again, why did they kill Apple Works?"

Apparently the name violated a bunch of truth in advertising laws.

tolazytotell,

The Panda is not really a bear either.

Sabre tooth! Pity it's extinct. Good name for Windows tho' - long in the tooth.

Just want to add how much I enjoy this site. It's the only "social" site I visit regularly, and find it as addictive as using my 24" iMac. Posters here are from several countries and such varied backgrounds that, regardless of the topic of the article, someone here seems to be able to add additional perspective. People like TowerTone and Twisted Mac Freak frequently crack me up, and, of course, I love it when someone takes a troll to the woodshed for a learnin'. Thanks, everyone, for entertainment and insight over the past year-and-a-half that I've been coming here.

Reading recommendation of the day: Jamie Whyte's Crimes Against Logic. It might change the way you argue your points.

I have "used" all OS X versions since the public beta. The beta was really just a demonstration version, X.0 and X.1 were deficient in peripheral support. The first real enterprise version of OS X, where Apple finally ironed out all the printer issues, IMHO, was 10.2 and most specifically the 10.2.6 & 10.2.8. (I recall some issues with with the release (ie it was pulled and re-released) of 10.2.7 or 10.2.8. Apple quickly went to 10.3 and it has been invisible ever since. Invisible in the sense that the OS does everything it is asked, without a hiccup.

What is amazing is that I still run 10.4 on two 5+ year old 500mHz iMac G3s, and as slow as they are comparied to modern Macs, they do just fine. One is used as secretarial workstation (256MB memory) (running Office (Word and Excel)/FMP/Quicken/Mail/Safari&Firefox;/iCal/Address Book and two custom applications), the other is a print/fax/email/music server (utilizing only 128MB or memory!) My main machine is an old 667MHz PBG4 Titanium (768MB memory). I have no reason to upgrade hardware yet. Each version of OS X has brought performance increases, some significant. (Heck I even had 10.1 running on a PBG3 wallstreet (unsupported) until I spilled coffee in her and replaced it with my current PB.)

I didn't go X full time until 10.2. With both 10.0 and 10.1, I was mainly booted into 8.5 then 9, as we were at that time still using Word Perfect (not supported in X) as our everyday word processor.

It was just in this last year, that I removed Classic from all but the secretarial workstation, and the backup HDs.

I can help. Lets start with Tabby and after that:
American Bobtail
Asian Semi-longhair (or Tiffanie)
Balinese
Birman
British Longhair
Chantilly/Tiffany cat
Himalayan
Javanese
Maine Coon
Nebelung
Norwegian Forest Cat
Oriental Longhair
Persian
Ragdoll (and Ragamuffin)
Siberian
Turkish Van
Turkish Angora
York Chocolate cat

By the time we are at Ragdoll, Apple should have 90% market share
and Balmer will be in prison doing 25 to Life for insider trading
and being an habitual liar. Bill Gates and his wife will have past away from nasty form of African diarriah.

Steve Jobs will start wearing plaids which he will make cool and
the world will be right again.

Just a lazy Saturday thought....

Don't forget the beautiful Toyger. See him here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070321-toygers-photos.html

Two Dates that I never forget... March 24th, because it's my birthday and the day that OS X was released. And April 1st because it's my Anniversary with Apple as the day I started working for them and it's also Apple's anniversary as it's first day as a Corporation. Two amazing coincidences marking destiny!

Happy birthday, OS X. F Windows.

Happy Birthday OSX! Now die. I want OS XI

Happy Birthday Mac OS X .. but .. 5% use is disappointing.

When will Mac OS X 10.6.9 Pussy be coming out?

Thanks Tezza

Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!

The silky noose tightens ever so gently, the beast is not aware until too late...
Once aware of the eminent danger, the howling, the gnashing, the spasms, only serve to make the noose ever tighter.

This Game was won 6 years ago, those that lost are only now becoming aware of the noose.

iTunes is a freely installed a trojan (Quicktime+Bonjour) that makes AppleTV, ipod, and Airport possible on Windoze, and there is not one thing M$ can do about it. Their fate and the fate of their "Partners" (sycophants if you ask me) is sealed.

How sweet to be vindicated after all these years! The sound of gnashing teeth is iMusic to my tired ears.

I jumped on OS X with Jaguar, too. I noticed right away that it was slower than OS 9. But, I was willing to put up with the system slowness as a trade off for its stability (never had a kernel panic on any version of OS X, ever (fingers crossed) and only 2 system freezes that required a reboot), the improved graphics (brighter and clearer), better audio (MUCH louder), and improved memory management.

Compare the change in overall system speed in going from OS 10.2 to 10.4.9 vs. Windoze 98 to XP SP2. Marked increases for OS X and marginal for Winblows, at best!