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Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - Grumpyguy - 03-24-2006
OS X was officially released on March 24, 2001.
It is 5 years old today!
Wow, I ran OS X beta and 10.00 and for those who remember, it was, well, a dog.
It was 10.2 that OS X finally became usable on a daily basis and it was the 10.3 release that saw X become almost as fast as OS 8/9.
Here is a good summary article: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/osx-fiveyears.ars/1
Re: Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - incognegro - 03-24-2006
just updated a customer's eMac to 10.1.5 today... forgot about how different that release was!
Re: Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - mattkime - 03-24-2006
>>just updated a customer's eMac to 10.1.5 today
for the love of Leader, at least get him to 10.2 if not something newer.
Re: Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - SteveJobs - 03-24-2006
RIP COPLAND
Re: Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - Grumpyguy - 03-24-2006
10.3 was a very good release. It literally WAS faster on my G4 upgraded B&W. That was the first time an OS release was actually faster than the version it replaced.
Re: Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - Paul F. - 03-24-2006
I'm still very pleased with 10.3.x
Still using it on all the machines here at work (130-something of them).
Can you beleive that some Educational Software companies are still releasing NEW TITLES for OS 9 *ONLY*?
Five years, guys... wake up already...
Re: Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - Grumpyguy - 03-24-2006
10.4 is just a lot of bells and whistles for the most part.
Dashboard isn't anything great or wonderful that you can't do with seperate programs or Konfabulator.
Smart folders? Smart folders remind me of Open Doc. Great idea, but really, have you figured out how to use them?
Automator? Maybe photoshop people.
iChat video? Too bad I'm not pimp and don't have a horde strippers so I could make some bucks from live video : )
so yeah, 10.3 is a safe bet : )
oh, and spotlight. Just give my my find command. Spotlight finds way too much, and in a manner that seems more inspired by Microsoft than good old Apple.
Re: Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - mattkime - 03-24-2006
>>Spotlight finds way too much,
What are you trying to bury?
Re: Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - Grumpyguy - 03-24-2006
spotlight seems to find a lot of clutter, rather than the file I want.
It seems overly complex without any great value to the user. That's just my 2ยข and it it works for other people, then more power to them : )
Re: Happy Birthday OS X--Five years old today - Panopticon - 03-25-2006
...and still lightyears ahead of anything yet to come out of Redmond!
(I do like the new Vista BSOD though!) ::o
