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I hope they take something more fun next time. California landmarks, not so exiting from my perspective.

Something more universal, like MacOS Jupiter, Pluto….Moon and Earth.
I would even take MacOS Mount Everest, K2, or Pacific, Atlantic, ….come on Apple get out of your a-s-s ☺️
 
yeah, but that name is officially (forever) on the map now.. heck, we're still talking about stupid snow leopards for christ sake and none of us knew of its existence before apple decided to be cute with their codenames!

It's a 1st World problem, IMO, and not something to get bent up about.
 
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The whole thing is utter b*ll*cks: even the 10.1, 10.2, and so on was b*ll*cks (for Americans that's 'bollocks', which is a British word for testicles, but ruder), as, after system 9 there should have been 10,11,12 and so on, and the amazing thing is Mac-heads criticising Microsoft for going 7,8,10,11.

The, ever-so cuddly-feely stupid kitschy names that make me feel I am enclosed in shiny black leather in a gay bar in Santa Fé (and I am, depressingly in these WOKE days, 100% hetero [not that, admittedly, it has ever fussed me]), just seems very silly indeed (mind you I bet airheads like Paris Hilton go a bundle on it), and I'd rather just stick to good, old-fashioned numbers: so, for me 'Mac OS Venture' will always be 'Mac OS 28'.

And, Hey, if you want to think I am an old, unreconstructed fart go ahead: I AM an old (well 60), unreconstructed, old fart, and, UNLIKE a load of younger people I am sufficiently secure in myself that I am not always looking over my shoulder to see who is calling me a white, privileged male: mainly because I am a white privileged male and thank God every f*cking day I am a white, privileged male because it sure makes life easy for me.
 
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The whole thing is utter b*ll*cks: even the 10.1, 10.2, and so on was b*ll*cks (for Americans that's 'bollocks', which is a British word for testicles, but ruder), as, after system 9 there should have been 10,11,12 and so on, and the amazing thing is Mac-heads criticising Microsoft for going 7,8,10,11.

The, ever-so cuddly-feely stupid kitschy names that make me feel I am enclosed in shny black leather in a gay bar in Santa Fé (and I am, depressingly in these WOKE days, 100% hetero [not that, admittedly, it has ever fussed me]), just seems very silly indeed (mind you I bet airheads like Paris Hilton go a bundle on it), and I'd rather just stick to good, old-fashioned numbers: so, for me 'Mac OS Venture' will always be 'Mac OS 28'.

And, Hey, if you want to think I am an old, unreconstructed fart go ahead: I AM an old (well 60), unreconstructed, old fart, and, UNLIKE a load of younger people I am sufficiently secure in myself that I am not always looking over my shoulder to see who is calling me a white, privileged male: mainly because I am a white privileged male and thank God every f*cking day I am a white, privileged male because it sure makes life easy for me.

Well there was no System 9 either, and its VenturA. But nice job going REALLY out of your way on an unrelated tangent to show folks what a redneck you are.
 
^^^^No MacOS 9❓ Funny, I used it back in the day.


In those days, Mac OSs cost money👎

Same here (still do). But it wasn't called System 9. ;)

I lucked out. My first Mac was a blue and white G3 that came with OS 9. I remember paying something like $130 for the first OS X but the upgrades were only like $30 or so at least, and you didn't have to buy one every year!
 
The fact that I don't like a load of daft names does not make me a redneck.

Other things might ;) but I'll tell you one more thing for free: it is much more fun to be an
unreconstructed old fart, err, 'redneck' than desperately trying to keep up with the latest fashions
in crud such as whether the next version of the Mac OS (erm, '14') should be called
'Cannery Row' or 'East St. Louis'.
 
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