Yeah Apple is going to have to pry Leopard from my cold dead hands.
We can hope!
Yeah Apple is going to have to pry Leopard from my cold dead hands.
I have the same issue. Safari 4 Beta on Leopard hummed along smoothly and stayed that way the entire time I had it.
On Snow Leopard, I get beach balls, freezes, crashes, slow downs, graphical aberrations... it plain old just sucks.
Changes to the boot process? Hmmmmm. It seems kind of obvious to me why they would want to change how a Mac boots in the future so as to keep anyone from hacking reasonable priced hardware to run OSX. Don't be surprised if your brand new Macbook won't work with 10.7 in favor of getting rid of the Hackintoshes. They killed my PowerMac with 10.6 for no other reason than to force more hardware sales sooner, so it certainly wouldn't surprise me at this point. Dont' worry, though. I mean you'll have had your new Mac for 2 years by then and that's more than enough use to justify the prices Apple charges. It's time to upgrade! Besides, Snow Leopard will still be usable on your Mac just like OS9 still works on some older Macs! I'm sure software developers won't immediately abandon making updates for that version of the operating system. They'll at least continue for a few months, anyway. It'll be nothing to get upset about.![]()
Ummm no. Read the first post. Leopard (10.5.0) was 9A, Snow Leopard (10.6.0) is 10A ...
Why would Steve and Apple call it Mac OS "ten" every time they speak of it, then?
Cue lots of moaning and going back to 10.6.8.
Apparently the build IDs are based on Darwin/NEXTSTEP version numbers.
The 10.0 to 10.6 stuff is just noise. The real version numbers are 10.0 (Snow Leopard), 9.0 (Leopard) etc..
Because, as he said, the "X" stands for "10" as in "successor of [Mac OS] 9".
It's the name "Mac OS X", pronounced "mac os ten". The "X" is not a version number.
Speaking of the OS9 transition to OSX is anyone really anxious to see what Apple is going to have in store after OSX is over? With new OS releases approximately every two years from Apple i'm assuming it's going to be in the time frame of 2015 (that's if the world doesn't end in 2012). I'm probably thinking way too far ahead right now but I really can't imagine what kind of leap Apple will make from OSX to OS11 (or whatever they may call it).
It's too far out to speculate. Hell, we don't even know what kind of features 10.7 or 10.8 will hold.
It's too far out to speculate. Hell, we don't even know what kind of features 10.7 or 10.8 will hold.
Only 594? I'm sure I have over 600 by now.Bring on 10.7, 10.6 did nothing for me.
There were features for 10.6 not included? Like what?
Important? Disk space hasn't been a significant constraint in years, and is getting less so all the time.The other (probably more important) reasons for dropping PPC support from 10.6 were:
- fat binaries for all the user applications contain two rather than four executables, resulting in 10.6 taking less disk space than 10.5.
Resolution independence
Drop the microkernel. It's a performance nightmare.I'm probably thinking way too far ahead right now but I really can't imagine what kind of leap Apple will make from OSX to OS11 (or whatever they may call it).
forget the "ten" already, it is "OS X". To repeat myself, "ex", not "ten". Roman numeral "X" indeed does mean "10", but in Apple's case the "X" means "successor to classic Macintosh OS that ended with 9". Successor being very much alive in its 6th incarnation (not counting dot-zero "Cheetah" which was very much extension to public beta "Kodiak" and the two were not yet end-user ready).