It's hard to believe that Apple's OS X turned seven years old over the weekend. It seems like just yesterday I was playing with the beta builds on a friend's revision-A iMac. For those of us who had been using the OS prior to its release, Mac OS X was a frightening new world, one with shiny new widgets and preemptive multitasking. It has been seven years to the day since Mac OS X 10.0 shipped from Apple, and we decided to ask some of our Mac-using staff about their fondest (and not so fond) memories of the Apple's next-generation operating system.
I remember running to my local Apple dealer for the OS X.1 upgrade. It was a rather hefty update and came on CD. The sales person immediately knew what I wanted and didn't even charge me $129 for it. Oh, how I long for the days of free updates. Of course, not having to reformat my drive from HFS to HFS+ also stands out in my mind.
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Managing Editor Eric Bangeman remembers convincing himself he would wait until 10.1 before making the jump. He took a trip to local Micro Center a few days after launch, though, and was almost immediately seduced by the beauty. He's been using it ever since.
AdvertisementInfinite Loop writer and Macintosh Achaia moderator Erik Kennedy remembers marveling over the change in interface from OS X Developer Preview 2 to Developer Preview 3, and less fondly the iTunes 2 fiasco that erased many users' data.
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While some of us were eager to be early adopters, our own Jacqui Cheng swore that she would never use the newfangled operating system and would stick with OS 9 forever. It only took her several months to realize everyone else was 'moving on with their lives,' and that she had to do the same before becoming a graybeard. So to speak.
On the flipside, our resident designer and Battlefront moderator Aurich Lawson was so eager to leave OS 9 behind that he ran OS 10.0 in a production environment, despite the fact that all of his applications were being run in Classic mode.
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This is just a smattering of what individuals in the Ars Orbiting HQ remember. So readers, we leave it to you: what is it that you fondly, or not so fondly, remember about the last seven years of Mac OS X?
