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Happy Birthday Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the sure-why-not dept.

phillyclaude writes "Thanks to Wikipedia's Anniversaries page, I just realized Mac OS X turns three today! How could I forget such an important birthday?" Mac OS X 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001.

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  1. Expose by tblease · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah, the birthday of OS X. Here's to wishing that Windows had something similar to OS X Panther's Expose!

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    1. Re:Expose by redJag · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Hard to say that they "have" it when it's a third-party download you're referring to. I like the name, too; very original.

  2. Switching views by OmniVector · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's pretty amazing how polar opposite many slashdotter's views about Apple have changed since the release of OS X. The science and *nix community has really embraced this newcommer to the *nix world.

    Who else here used to hate macs until OS X, and now uses it as their primary machine? I'm sure I'm not alone.

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    1. Re:Switching views by Dstreelm · · Score: 5, Insightful

      yes, i never used a mac before osx, i bought my powerbook over a year ana a half ago, and i have absolutley no regrets. i was a hardcore windows user and now i just laugh at my friends whose computers crash, my roomate just virus checked his system and he found over 2000 viruses, i have none. that being said, i would rather that alot of windows xp users not 'switch' because i like being the outnumbered and decenting. i know my system is betterand i could care less about most windows users. however i would like to see apple continue to grow and gain more acceptance

  3. Re:Happy OS X user by MBCook · · Score: 3, Insightful
    10.6? I seriously doubt that people will be running 10.6 when Longhorn comes out. It will be more like 10.2834 (*rimshot*).

    Seriously though, by the time Longhorn is supposed to come out (2 or 3 years, assuming no more delays) OS X will be 5 ot 6 (or more) years old. I would think by then it would get bumped to XI.

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  4. Re:Birthday Present by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know, there were some things in your comment that made me wonder if you have any idea what you're talking about. No offense.

    I just wish I could use the more standard methods of GUI usage.

    What? Seeing how the Mac has been around longer than any other presently extant user interface, I'd say the Mac way is the standard way!

    a decent VGA fixed width type font (mac's are not fixed font oriented)

    Courier, Monaco, and Andale Mono are all installed on your machine by default. There's absolutely nothing wrong with them. In fact, Courier 14 with antialiasing is far easier to read on-screen than any other font. (VGA? What?)

  5. 3 years and still no: by valkraider · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Three years, and still no major children's games. Well, there are a couple - Finding Nemo and The Learning Tree ones... But most of the "major" titles - (which means the ones that feature the characters the pre-schoolers are addicted to) - are all still OS9, even though they were released more than a year or two after OSX.

    It is frustrating at the least - to keep Classic on a computer so my daughter can play "Blues Clues"... or "Dora the Explorer"...

    But in every other aspect - OSX rocks - it got me to switch to a Mac. And then to buy three more of them. And then buy a couple iPods, an iSight, and a bit of software... I would say OSX has been successful, at least in *my* household. All my x86/Windows machines have since been given to Goodwill...