They'd also kind of painted themselves into a corner, I forget what 10.1 was but: 10.2 = Jaguar 10.3 = Panther 10.4 = Tiger 10.5 = Leopard 10.6 = Snow Leopard - possibly named because 10.5 sucked? 10.7 = Lion 10.8 = Mountain Lion
Honestly I think everything after 10.6 is a let down. 10.8 especially just dumbifies an already dumbed down OS. I hate how they hide stuff. In fact I'm starting to think my Retina Macbook Pro was a mistake, everything about it is a pain in the ass, no optical drive, no firewire, stupid external monitor port nobody else uses. No replaceable battery (or at least they don't want you to replace it). It can't run Linux off a key drive so there goes my backup plan if the internal drive takes a dump (saved me more than once on the road). A student in class last week put 10.9 on and immediately lost his Win8 bootcamp partition. The data was still there but the OS wouldn't boot any longer. Typical Apple BS if you ask me. When I worked for Pinnacle they wrote our card out of 10.3.6, just made it invisible not even "unknown device" in the Apple system profiler. When Apple wants to mess with you they mess with you. -Curt Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:37:08 -0700 From: Alex Chamberlain <apchamberl...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] M(ac)B question Message-ID: <CABHyH=zbdqzzp7omsq8nu0pgirghvg-urbq15ysbkmsqwyj...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Oct 27, 2013 3:18 PM, "Rich Thomas" <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > > Actually it is a Mac 9 question, which > they call Maverick for some reason > completely unclear, but whatever... Because (Apple CEO) Tim Cook got tired of the big-cat naming scheme and all new versions of OS X are to be named after famous surfing destinations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location) As far as the OS upgrade itself, many people at my work have already upgraded and are pretty happy with it. We use Macbook Pros as development boxes and typically load them down pretty heavily with lots of virtual machines, so we would uncover stability issues pretty quickly if there were any to speak of. Alex _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
