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Mac OS X 10.4: Tiger

OS Eleven Name

Barring a horrible joke about OS "Shins Eleven" (sorry movie fans out there; I've never even seen the film), I think that a perfect name would be the NeXT OS. Bring back the true roots of the underpinings of the system.
 
I'm still waiting on the release of OS 11. Then I can annoy the hell out of my friends when I tell them that my computer goes to eleven. 😀

Yes, I did just go there.
 
Stripes or no Stripes

Its brushed metal.
But im still not sure whether the X logo will feature tiger stripes as the panther logo did not.
I hope that the upgrade will provide more stability in such apps as iMovie (still problems)
 
thatwendigo said:
I'm still waiting on the release of OS 11. Then I can annoy the hell out of my friends when I tell them that my computer goes to eleven. 😀

Yes, I did just go there.
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What will that mean that your computer is going eleven? I think that will se 10.4 & 10.5 much sooner.
 
No.

vkumario said:
Expose in itself was worth the 129 dollars, the upgrades are well worth the money.
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Uh....no it's not. Exposé is worth at the most $12. It's a neat feature and everything, but at the most it's good shareware. Apple should only charge for a new OS, aka OS X; then the middle, aka OS 10.5, then again and ONLY again when it gets to OS 11.

This nickel-and-dime crap is starting to look and taste like Micro$oft.
 
Borg3of5 said:
Uh....no it's not. Exposé is worth at the most $12. It's a neat feature and everything, but at the most it's good shareware. Apple should only charge for a new OS, aka OS X; then the middle, aka OS 10.5, then again and ONLY again when it gets to OS 11.

This nickel-and-dime crap is starting to look and taste like Micro$oft.
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but mac OS updates actually do things. some things tou don't even notice, but are very important. they actually sped up the OS for the 10.2 to 10.3 upgrade, but they touted the obvious features more because they want to appeal to the majority, and not just us mac heads.
 
Borg3of5 said:
Uh....no it's not. Exposé is worth at the most $12. It's a neat feature and everything, but at the most it's good shareware. Apple should only charge for a new OS, aka OS X; then the middle, aka OS 10.5, then again and ONLY again when it gets to OS 11.

This nickel-and-dime crap is starting to look and taste like Micro$oft.
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i dont know too many people who have tried to eat a Windows CD-ROM, but ive heard it causes memory loss 🙄 😀
 
Borg3of5 said:
Uh....no it's not. Exposé is worth at the most $12. It's a neat feature and everything, but at the most it's good shareware. Apple should only charge for a new OS, aka OS X; then the middle, aka OS 10.5, then again and ONLY again when it gets to OS 11.

This nickel-and-dime crap is starting to look and taste like Micro$oft.
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After the first uproar about 10.1 Apple released a statement saying something to the effect that 10. 1 10.2 10.3 etc are different os' and that they are not required upgrades or bug fixes they just want to keep the nomenclature the same. Whether or not you buy into that is one thing. I my self am happy on Jaguar until I get a new system and then I will be on Panther or whatever is out then
 
right.....

I dont care what they call it, so long as my airport starts working again. Thanks for that last "update" apple!!!
 
Borg3of5 said:
Uh....no it's not. Exposé is worth at the most $12. It's a neat feature and everything, but at the most it's good shareware. Apple should only charge for a new OS, aka OS X; then the middle, aka OS 10.5, then again and ONLY again when it gets to OS 11.

This nickel-and-dime crap is starting to look and taste like Micro$oft.
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Quit being a tight wad! Apple's not forcing you to buy every version of Mac OS X. Each upgrade is a major update for the system and Apple developers work around the clock to get it out so I think they deserve a little something for it. I guess if they wanted to they could each year call they could change the whole number scheme so it would be called Mac OS 11, then next year call it Mac OS 12, etc... If they did that it would be a little ridiculous after a while since Apple updates its OS every year.

I believe Apple has done this before with its OS. I don't believe you can go from Mac OS 8.0/8.1 to 8.5/8.6 w/o paying for the full version of Mac OS 8.5. Maybe this is where you got the idea from. If so, Apple wasn't updating its OS every year back then so it was a little easier to not charge for it all the time.
 
don't knock the stripes

jayscheuerle said:
Let's just hope they're not bringing back the stripes on the menubar...
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i want the stripes on the menus+titles back d00d. even if they're subtle.
 
Spinal Tap

wdlove said:
The last thing that we want to do is have Apple with a product that induces fear. Unless it would actually be a positive effect and people would be afraid not to have the OS!

I guess that I'm showing my age again, never heard of the band Spinal Tap.

If true johnnyjibbs, that would be a fairly swift transition is done by next summer. Then we can also have a 64 bit OS.
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"This Is Spinal Tap" was a mockumentary from 1984. Here's the IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/
 
yeah sry stripes blow. they're al plasticky and cheap looking. i'd rather the slimmed down look of panther than the stripes of jaguar. I also like the panther finder way more. The old one was a joke.
 
wdlove said:
I'm guessing Steve will introduce 10.4 at WWDC, just like last year. Maybe it will go on sale later in the Fall. 😎
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I think at earliest January next year. Updates each year are not as important in my mind as spending time on other software like iLife (new apps, imporved apps) and making each osx release have plenty of new stuff. Plus its a bit cheaper and less hastle for us all.
 
stripes do blow indeed, and if iTunes, the migration of the look in the OS, and the new g5's tell you anything, brushed metal is the new look, so i expect tiger to have even more by the way of metal in it, although i also hope that there is more UI customization available as well.

my guess: features announced at WWDC, hands-on beta at Paris Expo, 10.4 released at MWSF in January '05.
 
bryantm3 said:
i want the stripes on the menus+titles back d00d. even if they're subtle.
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the stripes are there, just adjust your display and you'll see. they are so subtle now that it is really beautiful 🙂
 
Back to prices

I dont have time to read 26 pages of posts, so i'll put in my two cents from page 6, whan y'all were talking about wheather or not apple OS 'upgrades' were actually upgrades. I dont know if that was ever finalized, but I will finalize it for good. I recently formatted a eMac I was going to return for credit tword my G5 using another computer linked via firewire. i kind of accidently formatted it in a 'MS-DOS File System', thus screwing myself up badly. i was actually able to use my Panther install disc to install panther back onto the eMac. this surely proves that the Panther install disc is not only able to upgrade other mac operating systems, but is the complete operating system, just like on microsoft systems. and they still rule.
 
This one goes up to 11

wdlove said:
...I guess that I'm showing my age again, never heard of the band Spinal Tap.
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It was more of a movie than a band (the movie is a cult favourite and I think Rob Reiner's first), actually a mock rock documentary about the 'mock' band Spinal Tap (which actually did tour after the movie I think, though they purposely stunk) . One of the most famous jokes from the movie is from a scene where the interviewer asks the guitar player why his guitar amp went up to 11 instead of just making 10 louder. His answer: "This one goes up to 11."
 
Here is the first indication of what the Tiger logo will look like. I received an invitation from Steve to attend WWDC. My acceptance is to see him from my local Apple Store! 🙂 😎

Will not allow me to upload even though it's a jpg.
 
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