Originally posted by mac15
cats names sure blow the pants of M$ longhorn...... or even XPerience. Yeah a piss poor experience for anyone whos ever used XP
Originally posted by Aditya
Not to mention the XP stands also for XPensive...![]()
but let's be real here: XP Professional is $199. OS X is $129. I've had XP for about a year now and MS isn't expecting me to buy an upgrade this year. I bought Jaguar at launch last August and Apple is expecting me to shell out another $129 for Panther. The initial cost of XP is greater, but spread over the 2-3 years between upgrades, it's not as expensive as keeping an up-to-date Mac.
Originally posted by Sol
AU means Audio Units which is the name of the sound engine in OS X.
As for the feline names, I think Apple is on to a good thing; better than naming the operating system after a cow or bull, or whatever a 'Longhorn' is supposed to be.
Maybe if Apple ever makes a cut-down OS X for portable devices they could name it after domestic cats, for example, Siamese, Persian, Minx, etc.
The cat theme can even be integrated in the system sounds. Perhaps the start-up chime of Macs can be replaced with a roaring panther, jaguar, cougar, etc.
...actually, OS X 10.0 was code-named "Cheetah".Originally posted by slightly
Excitable marketing executives never think these things through. If they're trying to set up a "wild cat" metaphor - well, the panther is the only large cat that can't roar. Is that what they want? To take OS X's roar away? And, if OS X versions are getting (one hopes) faster, the culminating version would have to be "Cheetah", and I don't think Apple is quite gutsy enough to use *that* name.
Originally posted by Sol
AU means Audio Units which is the name of the sound engine in OS X.
Originally posted by Six
dont they use greek mythology names as code names for a lot of the hardware?
Originally posted by gopy
I think Apple will simply update the version number. For example, the CD for 10.2 says "Mac OS X version 10.2 Panther." So, Mac OS X version 11?
Originally posted by fabsgwu
That would be pretty dumb, considering "X" stands for 10, pronounced "ten" (Jobs said it himself)
Originally posted by fabsgwu
That would be pretty dumb, considering "X" stands for 10, pronounced "ten" (Jobs said it himself)
Originally posted by fabsgwu
That would be pretty dumb, considering "X" stands for 10, pronounced "ten" (Jobs said it himself)
Originally posted by MacBandit
Kind of funny they're going to reuse one cat twice. They've already used Puma and now they have Cougar registered. They're the same cat just a different regional name used here in the US.
Originally posted by gopy
Obviously it stands for ten. My point is that the "X" is more of a brand than an actual version number of the OS, differentiating it from the classic OS. If you read again my post, which you quoted without apparantly reading, I'm taking the version numbers from the CD. And, I remember a Wired article covering WWDC, and the Apple photo of the Panther CD actually *did* say "Version 11."