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I’m reminded of my desire to eventually switch to a Mac. Too bad I can’t afford it. Maybe if I start saving up now, I’ll be able to switch by the time OS 11 comes out… :-/
Comment by Mike — March 26, 2004 @ 7:09 pm
I can’t believe you were in California and didn’t come visit us! I mean, Burlingame is only like 5-6 hours away!
Comment by Amy — March 27, 2004 @ 12:37 am
I never understood the whole thing about naming the OS X releases after cats. I think they should start naming the OS XI releases after the Thundercats:
Version 11.0 – “Cheetara” Version 11.1 – “Panthro” Version 11.2 – “Lion-o” Version 11.2.5 – “Snarf”
Comment by Josh Farnham Walton — March 27, 2004 @ 12:41 am
The OS X naming scheme does suck, those of us who are basically windows people get confused and think that Apple is charging ~$120 for a x.1 upgrade, like Service Pack 1 for XP, when it is much more than that.
Having said that, I like the latter incarnations of OSX quite a bit, but not enough to justify switching. The hardware cost is too high, given the legacy software I’d sacrifice in the switch.
I do double boot linux on both machines (Mandrake/98SE/XP Pro on the desktop, and Fedora Core/XP Pro on the laptop). I’ve been very happy with this arrangement, and Mike might consider it.
Comment by Bob — March 27, 2004 @ 12:51 am
Apple has a long history of using internal code-names for their products. For example, my PowerBook was called the “Pismo” and my PowerMac was called the “Sawtooth”. Frequently, these code-names are also used by customers to refer to their machines. The first two Mac OS X releases weren’t officially referred to by their code-names. With Mac OS X 10.2 “Jaguar,” however, Apple officially marketed the product using its code name. I don’t know for sure why they made this decision, but one thing I can say for sure is that the two syllables in “Jaguar” are a lot easier to say than the seven syllables in “Mac OS X 10.2″.
Buying a Mac is expensive, it’s true. But I believe good things are worth saving up for. Or, barring that, worth getting high-interest loans for. Just kidding… been there, done that, don’t recommend it.
Bob – Mike is already running Linux, I believe. Josh – I had already suggested elsewhere that Panther should have been named Panthro.
Mike – Yep, just save those pennies. Don’t be tempted by the lure of cheap, built-it-yourself x86 hardware.
Amy – Hey, that’s way farther than 3.5 hours! The furthest Becky and I drove while in the Bay Area was Monterey, which was around two hours south.
Comment by Peter — March 27, 2004 @ 9:40 am