I’d be happy if they spent a year redesigning the system prefs UI.
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Launched 15 Years Ago Today With '0 New Features'
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Snow Leopard was great, but I will forever have a soft spot for Tiger. Is it weird to get nostalgic for a specific revision of a specific OS? It's probably normal, right?
Right?
Right?
"We've completely redesigned it from the ground up, now with a completely transparent background and text and icon colors that seamlessly shift to match the hues and textures of whatever is behind the window. We're calling this innovation Cloaked UI."
Great version of mac OS. I used it for a secondary boot disk just to run Avid Pro Tools v10 because of the fantastic stability, which is very welcome in recording work. I used it for many years.
I still miss Front Row, which was discontinued after SL (supposedly because of rights problems).
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Not as a media player, as it was, but simply as a view option in Finder. I would use it for special folders where I'd maximize the window and the content of the folder would scroll over the screen like on a stage with beautiful animation.
Not the greatest video, but skip to the middle and you get an idea:
I still miss Front Row, which was discontinued after SL (supposedly because of rights problems).
Front Row (software) - Wikipedia
Not as a media player, as it was, but simply as a view option in Finder. I would use it for special folders where I'd maximize the window and the content of the folder would scroll over the screen like on a stage with beautiful animation.
Not the greatest video, but skip to the middle and you get an idea:
Leopard wasn't bad per se but it felt really slow after Tiger. Tiger felt cleaner and it ran so well on all machines it humiliated even the "good" Windows OSs.
If your Mac came with Leopard on, I'm sure you had a better experience.
I know man, the good old days of stable Mac OS. Who would have thought it would end? And, now, with the M1 architecture change, the software landscape is a hellhole of subscriptions with few one-time price options and almost nothing that can be pirated easily. PowerPC Macs felt like a software desert but it wasn't full of bugs - "it just works". Even the "Ecosystem" argument is BS now when there are so many bugs and people can't even get their e-mail notifications to sync up across these so-called "premium" devices.
I remember buying my copy at CompUSA.
They had it locked in a metal filing cabinet until release day. I waited in line with a few other people.
Good times.
They had it locked in a metal filing cabinet until release day. I waited in line with a few other people.
Good times.
Yeah my point is everyone should have the freedom to determine when their computer will receive updates, rather than Apple nudging users when a new update is released. It could be a CLI app, or even under recovery environment.
Can't say I recall all specifics for the 'big cats-OS' - but I LOVED them all ♥️
Steve Jobs was a genius in many ways. We wont see any fun again until after Tim left.
But my devices probably work better today, so I'm not complaining too much.
This is exactly what I'm hoping for but unfortunately I doubt this will be the case with the current management team in charge of things.
I actually have right with me at my office my 2008 iMac running Snow Leopard on it, just as a backup for my family photos and personal CD music library, and because I enjoy so much that Mac OS release. Has the same UI performance on those beautiful 3D graphics as my M2 MacBook Air, and looks great... and it's a daily reminder on how far displays have evolved after 16 years. 
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MAN, those were the days when we'd watch an Apple Keynote with genuine anticipation.
The tech was still relatively new, where few things in the computing space were as ubiquitous as they are now.
Today we must look to other spaces/industries for the new "wheel", as computing has become somewhat mature (this side of "the Matrix").
The tech was still relatively new, where few things in the computing space were as ubiquitous as they are now.
Today we must look to other spaces/industries for the new "wheel", as computing has become somewhat mature (this side of "the Matrix").
if they did and reacted accordingly to what people expected of their products, by now we would have iPhones/Macs which cure cancer, print money, cause world peace, allow space travel. And their products would be free.
In short: no.
Stability and quality are under appreciated features by upper management at most companies.
Snow Leopard was a response to the thousands of complaints that previous versions killed so much important software. Of course that went out the window when yearly upgrades forcing betas on early adopters before their time. The company is still as reponsive in some ways, not so much in others.
You can set this up in MacOS to require approval. I have mine automatically download but it doesn’t get installed until I’m ready and approve. On iOS it pops up every once in a while asking for permission but nothing has gotten installed without my approval there either.
The iEverything was a gimmick that initially meant something but by the time it was stopped had long since lost any meaning. Not only that, but other companies were copying it and resulting in a lot of iProducts that weren’t made by Apple. The possibility of trademark issues was increasing fast, and iOS in particular did have an issue with a Cisco trademark.
Nothing's stopping you from either crafting an MDM profile for your own machines or just turning off automatic updates...