It was not that bad! I do not remember having any problems with it!
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It was not that bad! I do not remember having any problems with it!
Found my Snow Leopard dvds last year. End of an era. When things REALLY JUST WORKED, not bug infested feature creep we are getting now in OS X.
I long for the days when software, especially a video game, had to be complete and polished out of the box. There was no patch, no downloadable content. The game had to be ready. I was a gamer and try so hard to get back into it, but games of yesteryear were on a whole other level. Now, it feels like they continually re-skin the same games, charge for content that should be free, and you "beta test" most games as new releases.
The business model of gaming is very anti-consumer, these days. We are on the 5th or 6th Call of Duty, for example, that is basically interchangeable with the last release. You have to pre-order $99 and you get some kind of widget in game or $69 minus the widget. It's a joke.
Give me Final Fantasy VII. Battlefield 1942. Ocarina of Time.
Give me quality content on launch day.
The business model of gaming is very anti-consumer, these days. We are on the 5th or 6th Call of Duty, for example, that is basically interchangeable with the last release. You have to pre-order $99 and you get some kind of widget in game or $69 minus the widget. It's a joke.
Give me Final Fantasy VII. Battlefield 1942. Ocarina of Time.
Give me quality content on launch day.
I'm, starting to source vintage Intel Macs, I want two 2012 retina 15 inch MBPs so I can install Lion and Mountain Lion on them.
Lion sucked…but I do have a drawer full of Snow Leopard Server DVDs required for virtualisation purposes. Now if only that still worked on M123 hardware… 😳😟
Sorry buddy, if you’re not first, you’re last…
What I don’t get is I just got a new WinTel box on my desk at work and it’s got a CD drive in it. 🤔
What I don’t get is I just got a new WinTel box on my desk at work and it’s got a CD drive in it. 🤔
I’m too lazy to look on Google, what was the last Mac with an optical disc drive? Was it the pre-trash can Mac Pro?
I'm pretty sure I still have my Snow Leopard disc somewhere. It was the only one worth keeping, lol. I remember buying it at the Student Center on campus. It was my first upgrade to my first Mac I bought in early 2008, and man was it special.
Please Apple, I want a Snow Leopard release for my new Space Black 14" M3 Max 16/40 64GB 2TB arriving in a few weeks! Can we get Snow Sonoma?? Just an entire year of fixing bugs only. Sure, have the designers working in the background coming up with cool new stuff for the future, but don't implement it this year! I wish macOS could move back to a longer cycle, like every two years.
Please Apple, I want a Snow Leopard release for my new Space Black 14" M3 Max 16/40 64GB 2TB arriving in a few weeks! Can we get Snow Sonoma?? Just an entire year of fixing bugs only. Sure, have the designers working in the background coming up with cool new stuff for the future, but don't implement it this year! I wish macOS could move back to a longer cycle, like every two years.
Because owning stuff so so last century. In 50 years we'll all be living in shoeboxes with nothing but a personal device, headphones, and a backpack with personal items and a change of clothes or two.
You youngins with your itty bitty floppies and teeny wenie USB boot drives. Real men go 5.25 and larger. Don't make me pull out my TRS 80 and coal roll my F350, now get off my lawn:
Once upon a time... I remember a Version of Windows 95 with those disc's. With MS Office you've gotta install 50+ discs. Hours of work. drrrr ddd drrrr dddd. Smart ones installed even the DOS before (CD driver problem solved); 3 discs extra. drrrr dddd drrr ddddI remember when Microsoft Office came on at least 20 3.5 inch floppies. Good riddance!
I still remember how excited I was when I got 10.8 booted on my hackintosh.. I got a similar feeling from getting 10.8.4 working on a MB 2,1 thanks to Hackerwayne. I miss those days..
My plan to keep the old OS X install disks is working out...now that they aren't available anymore I can start planing for the inevitable auction where I will make millions! 😂
It really was cool to pop by the Apple Store and pick up the new OS disks, in the 2000s there was a feeling of connection when doing that, especially compared to the doldrums of the 1990s. macOS is still a great OS, I use it for work and play every day, but there isn't the special feeling of belonging to a special club that was around back then.
It really was cool to pop by the Apple Store and pick up the new OS disks, in the 2000s there was a feeling of connection when doing that, especially compared to the doldrums of the 1990s. macOS is still a great OS, I use it for work and play every day, but there isn't the special feeling of belonging to a special club that was around back then.
I bought a disk of 10.5 when it came out and I didn't even own a Mac.. I know what you mean.
Feh! I could install MS-DOS in an IBM-390 with a few million of those:
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I still have windows 3.1 floppies somewhere
Its crazy to think how quickly the internet and USB made optical media pointless.
Its crazy to think how quickly the internet and USB made optical media pointless.
Still run Snow Leopard on an old Mac Pro (not my main machine obviously) nice not have external drives disconnecting several times a day
This is the model of software now. Cloud based enterprise garbage that runs on AWS, where they arbitrarily drop features and functionality constantly. "oh your team is reliant on X feature to run your business, how sad for you". AWS goes down, well oops, guess you can't do anything. Maybe software wasn't meant to be endlessly iterated on with two week-long sprints for release every damn year. Maybe a web browser isn't meant to run enterprise grade software.
I think the market is wide open for a disrupter to come in with actual good, complete, finalized, software again.
Even Apple baffles me. Software gets updated, but I would hesitate to call it progress. It's like they have to make changes to justify their existence. At some point we have to accept that computers are like refrigerators now. They all keep your food cold.
Want to see people start thinking of tech as more of an appliance. Even basic cheap computers now run at speeds that would satisfy 99% of the population.