Apple Officially Drops 'Mac' Name from OS X Mountain Lion

[griz]

If they do go to OS 11, please let it be code named "Nigel".

 

[nick9191]

I LOVED the OLD Apple of yesterday, back when if you were a "pro" at all then you owned a Mac. Anyone that wanted Photoshop was on a Mac, video editing and publishing too. Now, those days are gone for good.

The elitism is strong in you. You should consider staying on the platform, it's a match made in heaven. Just kidding. But seriously though, yes, things change. Every day without fail for at least the last 15 years there's been a "Man, I used to love Apple, but then they did X" post somewhere on the Internet. If you want to spend forever looking back on the so called "glory days", back when you could catapult a Powerbook into an iron wall and the iron wall would be destroyed, and when OS X was totally awesome before they made it like iOS, and a bunch of other stuff that never happened, be my guest. Just like half the posts in this thread. Or, I could go ahead and summarise the original topic, and every other off topic post following it in this thread using mythree's quote:

Who cares...!!!

Whilst I love this forum, sometimes you guys can be so bloody anal and unappeasable it really boggles the mind.

 

[gatortpk]

As an aside, all these systems are ticking time bombs due to the type of capacitors used. Pretty much every SE/30 has now hit the practical limit of these caps which are now leaking. The solution is to replace them with Tantalum capacitors but because Apple used surface mount technology it's extremely difficult to replace them without lifting off the pads. Still it can be done...

Wow, ok, you have some impressive upgrades for your SE/30's! I would've really liked to see those perform next to a Macintosh IIfx (I've had both, but only a 16MHz SE/30, and it was fast compared to an SE @8MHz). I remember thinking my IIfx was a PhotoShop dream machine, and I need to make a correction, the IIfx had an '030 @40MHz, it wasn't till the Quadra's that had the '040 @25MHz+. Also, I've never seen a greyscale SE/30, or any Classic Mac for that matter. I almost forgot that the "grey" was produced with a checker pattern of pixels.

I hadn't thought about the capacitors in a while. I remember the first surface mounted caps, it was something. I still remember the old days when a capacitor started to leak or just plain shorted, I could just cut one lead and everything (mostly) would start working fine again. Though that was with analog electronics. (sometimes old TV's, really old TV's, and only with the filtering circuits, if the circuit depended on frequency control, then no, I don't think that would work too well, but might give interesting results!) I don't remember messing with caps on digital stuff. Probably because by that time, I figured it wouldn't work very well. IC's like a very stable voltage, and caps were there for a very different reason.

 

[BobMcBob]

iPhone is to Mac as
iOS is to OS X as
App Store is to Mac App Store


Right?

 

[scubus]

Maybe this is their endgame... By removing the "Mac" from the name, it can be installed on something other than a Mac. With Windows 8 not due out until the end of 2012, they could roll this out to all PCs by summer and cut it off at the pass. Everyone with a PC and an iPhone would be considering that upgrade.

If that is Apple's plan it would be a very foolish move, in my opinion (not that they ask me.) Why go through the hassle of trying to sort out every hardware combination, force apps to be re-programmed, and cannibalize your hardware sales when they are selling better than ever?

Anything is possible, but I highly doubt this.

Sometimes we Apple fans read a lot into something litte - it may mean very little. If anything, I suspect it is a move to create LESS differentiation between the mobile and desktop/laptop OS's, and maybe the start of integrating the two OS's into one - and why not? I am not sure why this is so scary to so many.

It could also be that the OS is going to run the Apple TV and other consumer products that are neither computer or iPhone/iPad type products.