What Will macOS 10.15 Be Called: Mammoth, Monterey, Rincon, Skyline, or Something Else?

[Populus]

I think macOS Skyline sounds awesome, but for this time, I think they will go with Monterey. I have that hunch, kinda a premonition.

By the way, Mammoth is an hilarious and ugly name. They put a lot of effort into it's registration tho, so they probably will end up using it.

 

[BornAgainMac]

This is the update that will kill a lot of compatibility.

 

[Populus]

@LeonardXW that's quite an off topic post. Better ask on the MacBook Pro subforum, open a thread there and people will help you.

Hi, I need some guides on purchasing a MacBook Pro.
I am an Aerospace engineering student, will use the laptop to do (A) assignment, (B) research or maybe some (C) 3D modelling. The 3D modelling software I used before was CATIA V5, which is available on window only. I don’t mind to use computer lab for 3D modelling as it is graphically intensive,I am doubting laptop can run it well. I will open a lot of safari tabs, and few documents while researching. Aside for study, I want to have some gaming such as The Sims 4 full Library.

I am well aware of few problems with Apple MacOS, the systems itself consume 60% of the storage (on my MacBook Air systems take up 80GB of my 128GB storage). When the storage is Low, the computer tend to load slower. Also, we can’t install applications on external hard drive right? I am aware of the option of eGPU.

Here are the questions, (either one)
1. CPU vs GPU. Should I get fastest CPU or dedicated GPU?
2. CPU vs Storage. Should I get fastest CPU or higher storage. I know there is an option of external storage.

 

[mikethemartian]

They wanted to optimize MacOS after all the previous glitches and bugs. So they called it Mojave because Apple needed to walk the desert for a year to redeem itself. So now that they have found redemption they will leave the desert via... PALM SPRINGS!

MacOS Salton Sea

 

[NMBob]

To tie-in with their upcoming service: macOS Hollywood

 

[jonblatho]

Yeah that’s great, but not what I’m talking about at all. FCPX etc is fine. But it still doesn’t do what quicktime7 did. Nothing they make does.

I'm not suggesting you use them in your workflow. I'm suggesting that you use them to convert your media so that you can continue using the files after updating to macOS 10.15 if you plan on updating. Apple's certainly not about to renege on this; it's been well-advertised for more than a year that 32-bit software would no longer work in a future macOS release, and they've made tools readily available to convert 32-bit media such that the files can be opened in said future release.

 

[mikethemartian]

Yeah that’s great, but not what I’m talking about at all. FCPX etc is fine. But it still doesn’t do what quicktime7 did. Nothing they make does.

Not ideal, but you might be able to run an older version of OSX using Parallels or VM Ware Fusion on a host machine running the current version of Mac OS.

 

[macsba]

Since they usually alternate between regular and `refinement` releases of macOS, this will probably be named after a feature of the Mojave desert.

So my vote goes for:

macOS Edwards Air Force Base

How about macOS MUROC?

 

[iAssimilated]

macOS Eureka... it sells itself!

Seriously though, I like Skyline as well.

 

[AgentOSX]

Given the current state of Los Angeles and San Francisco, they should just call it "Human Poop" or "Tweaker."

 

[JosephAW]

macOS Jobs

 

[EdT]

They should call it 'Fred'. And it should wear a cardigan.

 

[Tozovac]

Who cares. Why not instead work on ensuring any-named OSX or iOS update can be called "It just works " again.

iPhoto --> Photos: Disaster so far. Unintuitive and confusing.

Local music files --> forced iCloud prioritization: Disaster. Why does my iPhone Music app show representations for files when I select the option to show only downloaded music? Why does my iPhone do things I don't understand and not what I want anymore?

Use iTunes for podcasts --> Native Podcast app: Disaster, period.

iTunes before iTunes 12 —> iTunes 12: Disaster. Stop thinking so hard and changing things just to change.

OSX Spaces before Yosemite —> after: Dumb!!!! Why do you show alike-looking grey blobs for desktops atop the screen instead of visual representations of each desktop like before? Why do you require an additional step of having to move the mouse up in order to see the screen representations? Stop over-thinking and changing just to change!!!!

 

[JPSaltzman]

Well, if they continue on their "visionary path" of alienating long-time users in the graphics arts, media, and other relevant groups who actually "produce" their work on the Macintosh platform

Who cares. I'll never use it. This is the one that arbitrarily makes all my "unoptimised" applications no longer work, right?

For the above reason(s), I vote for "Death Valley." My upgrades stop with High Sierra (and only on 1 of my 5 Macs). The rest will stay on El Capitan or Sierra.

DOA, Apple. It was nice while it lasted.

 

[derekamoss]

I think it should be called Mac OS X Liger.

 

[m00f]

MacOS Salton Sea..

Mac OS Tenderloin..

Mac OS Skid Row.. you’re welcome

 

[davester]

macOS PBG5

 

[ScreenSavers]

This is the update that will kill a lot of compatibility.

I hope not. Mojave already killed a lot of compatibility already! I don’t see them dropping any retina MacBook Pros. Maybe they’ll remove the 2012 classic unibody MacBook pros and the old cheese grater Mac Pros. Maybe the 2012 Mac mini as well…

 

[scottinlexky]

Mac OS X LaBrea

 

[redheeler]

Just drop the "10" -- that bit never changes anyway. Just call it macOS 15. Stop using names. iOS doesn't have names. tvOS doesn't have names. watchOS doesn't have names.

I like that Apple has kept the naming tradition alive with MacOS (Mac OS X). It's still Apple's most capable and feature-rich operating system, and without MacOS the ones referred to only by version numbers simply would not exist.

 

[sakurarain]

How about "macOS Westeros"?

 

[iAssimilated]

How about macOS Shasta-Trinity... first ever Apple OS with a hyphenated name... so much better than macOS 11 (which is only one louder).

 

[TrenttonY]

Just drop the "10" -- that bit never changes anyway. Just call it macOS 15. Stop using names. iOS doesn't have names. tvOS doesn't have names. watchOS doesn't have names.

I think at this point they should drop all numbers. We’re already at iOS 13, at what point does it begin to sound ridiculously, iOS 23?

Just refer to it has “the new iOS”, and subtlety include the version number as the year it was released, ‘2019’.

 

[dogslobber]

macOS Alcatraz because everything will be locked down?

 

[redheeler]

Just refer to it has “the new iOS”, and subtlety include the version number as the year it was released, ‘2019’.

Not sure about iOS, but it's definitely time to start doing this with iPads, instead of having two different products from two different release years but both called iPad Air.