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OS X 10.9 Activity Ramping Up as Speculation on Developer Preview Release Increases
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Magical Mr. Mistoffelees 10.9
Mr. Mistoffelees is black and small and can perform many feats of magic that no other cat can do
for those who remember!
Supporting Direct X 11 would bring the turtlenecked one back from the underworld, to do nasty things.
It would also help to sell a lot of Apples.
Clouded Leopard
Apple OS 10.9 -- Clouded Leopard (see below)
Apple OS 10.8 -- Mountain Lion -- July 25, 2012 -- 9th major release OS X
Apple OS 10.7 -- Lion -- July 20, 2011 -- 8th major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.6 -- Snow Leopard -- June 8, 2009, 7th major release OS X
Apple OS 10.5 -- Leopard -- October 26, 2007, 6th major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.4 -- Tiger -- April 29, 2005, 5th major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.3 -- Panther -- October 24, 2003, 4th major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.2 -- Jaguar -- August 23, 2002, 3rd major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.1 -- Puma -- September 25, 2001, 2nd major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.0 -- Cheetah -- March 24, 2001, 1st release of OS X
Other than the "Clouded Leopard" found in southeast Asia, there are few other distinctive big cat names available.
How appropriate. But is it a "leopard too far"?
By the way, my nine-year-old granddaughter knew of the clouded leopard; she said it was in the National Geographic Almanac.
Cougar, Liger, Tigon ... Voltron
Apple OS 10.9 -- Clouded Leopard (see below)
Apple OS 10.8 -- Mountain Lion -- July 25, 2012 -- 9th major release OS X
Apple OS 10.7 -- Lion -- July 20, 2011 -- 8th major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.6 -- Snow Leopard -- June 8, 2009, 7th major release OS X
Apple OS 10.5 -- Leopard -- October 26, 2007, 6th major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.4 -- Tiger -- April 29, 2005, 5th major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.3 -- Panther -- October 24, 2003, 4th major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.2 -- Jaguar -- August 23, 2002, 3rd major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.1 -- Puma -- September 25, 2001, 2nd major release of OS X
Apple OS 10.0 -- Cheetah -- March 24, 2001, 1st release of OS X
Other than the "Clouded Leopard" found in southeast Asia, there are few other distinctive big cat names available.
How appropriate. But is it a "leopard too far"?
By the way, my nine-year-old granddaughter knew of the clouded leopard; she said it was in the National Geographic Almanac.
It will be... Apple said themselves, that theyre moving to small, incramental updates once a year
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Problem with the clouded Leopard, is that theyve already done the leopards... It might be a bit funny if they go: Leopard, snow leopard, lion, mountain lion, clouded leopard. If they were going to do a clouded leopard they shouldve done it after SL.
Have you been living under a rock?
You are aware that there is a beautiful Google Maps app written in native Cocoa for the iPhone, right?
You are aware that there is a beautiful Google Maps app written in native Cocoa for the iPhone, right?
They dont seem to teach roman numerals in school anymore (if they ever did) - I only learned because my mum taught me when I was 6
They dont seem to teach roman numerals in school anymore (if they ever did) - I only learned because my mum taught me when I was 6
I had some kid (college age) ask me "what are all those marks for" I could only reply to him with "you really never seen tally marks?:
I want 10.9 to be named Lynx.
And some nice main color again, not that ugly new blue from 10.7/10.8. And actually intelligent features again like 10.6 brought. Throw away the useless Launchpad, throw away the oh-so-natural scrolling (it only feels natural when you do it on a touchscreen), throw away the crippled Exposé and Spaces (now Mission Control) and refine the 10.6 version of it. Give me some colors again for the mini-icons in the Finder sidebar. Color the QuickLook window neutral grey / transparent black again.
That's my wishlist.
An OS X useful for professionals and that doesn't suck like the last 2 releases.
And some nice main color again, not that ugly new blue from 10.7/10.8. And actually intelligent features again like 10.6 brought. Throw away the useless Launchpad, throw away the oh-so-natural scrolling (it only feels natural when you do it on a touchscreen), throw away the crippled Exposé and Spaces (now Mission Control) and refine the 10.6 version of it. Give me some colors again for the mini-icons in the Finder sidebar. Color the QuickLook window neutral grey / transparent black again.
That's my wishlist.
An OS X useful for professionals and that doesn't suck like the last 2 releases.
Off-topic, I know, but the girl on the left looks like the iPhone 5 - If you know what I mean
I cant believe they are going to milk X right up to .9
Its getting ridiculous when they have to come up with sub-cat names because the OS has so few changes.
They should skip .9 and just do XI. They should have skipped .8 too
Its getting ridiculous when they have to come up with sub-cat names because the OS has so few changes.
They should skip .9 and just do XI. They should have skipped .8 too
C2D was cut from last upgrade w/ Mountain Lion though for most C2D owners
Really? My C2D MBP got ML... But I guess theres no chance of 10.9 then
...Oh well, its not like the last two OSs have brought anything decent to the table. TBH Id be fine on SL still.
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And .7
I was unaware that Clouded Leopard was real. This could be cool, as "clouded" matches really well the cloud thing going on the internet right now. Moreover, the Leopard is welcome, as Snow Leopard is consired the best OS X version, hoepfully thei will bring back the classical Spaces and the classical Exposé, along with Rosetta.
I think they'll we'll see more Helvetica and less Lucida. I'm not counting on it being fully replaced, but maybe.
If this is a tick in their cycle akin to Leopard and Lion, I'm anticipating slight changes in the look of things.
If this is a tick in their cycle akin to Leopard and Lion, I'm anticipating slight changes in the look of things.
It could be the non-SSE4.1 capable hardware, such as the Merom C2D based machines. I somehow suspect that support for the 8600M may be on its way out too...
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Does anyone remember when new OSX releases were really exciting??
Now it's the same thing with a few iOS features thrown in. The main problem with that is that iOS has stagnated for years.
I'm coming back to this comment when the preview is released to either say "You were right" or "Wow, were you wrong"
Also...I'm not expecting any major changes until Apple unifies iOS with OSX (it's bound to happen at some point). Presumably in 11.0
For those of you who were wondering, I'm pretty sure those distinct peaks in the visit numbers at weekdays, for the peaks, and weekends for the dips.
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I imagine that this will happen fairly soon actually. I think that the release of Windows 8 and Ubuntu Phone OS Shows an increasing trend towards universal operating systems. I just hope Apple does it better than Microsoft.
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I imagine that this will happen fairly soon actually. I think that the release of Windows 8 and Ubuntu Phone OS Shows an increasing trend towards universal operating systems. I just hope Apple does it better than Microsoft.