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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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    huzzah
  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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    - tristan
    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: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?)