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El Capitan vs El Cap
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OK, so I took a closer look at passed-out Mister Party
Eventually, the penny dropped. Get a load of what's left of that footwear, folks.
El Capitan. Your friendly neighbourhood wrestler who enjoys a tipple.
Nice one, Apple. Knockout.
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From Wikipedia
Following the California landmark-based naming scheme introduced with OS X Mavericks, El Capitan was named after a rock formation in Yosemite National Park. This is because it is not really a major new release, but rather a minor upgrade which is a feature enhancement to OS X Yosemite(10.10), thus the name refers to a mountain inside of Yosemite National Park.
Following the California landmark-based naming scheme introduced with OS X Mavericks, El Capitan was named after a rock formation in Yosemite National Park. This is because it is not really a major new release, but rather a minor upgrade which is a feature enhancement to OS X Yosemite(10.10), thus the name refers to a mountain inside of Yosemite National Park.
As someone who attended an El Capitan High School, hundreds of miles away from Yosemite in Southern California, I about snorted coffee right out my nose when I saw the headlines. I don't think the name is ever going to resonate with me as connected to a version of OS X. The association just isn't going to happen, so long live OS X "ten-eleven." Though I'm considering "Revenge of the Snow Kitty" as a close second.
The keynote said they brought in a "consultant" to advise them, so they hardly had to do much "creative thinking" at all really!
I imagine it was a game of eenie meenie miney mo pointing at a projector screen of the places within Yosemite park that Apple Maps had actually marked correctly.
Well, I call it " OS X La Bamba" because everytime I think about it, I can't help but singing "No yo soy marinero, soy capitan, soy capitan, soy capitan" 
I haven't seen the Apple Keynote yet, but i'm curious to know how people in the states pronounce "El Capitán", I find it funny when people pronounce spanish names like "Las Vegas" or "Los Angeles", I hope this new OS is not as bad as "Windows Vista" was.
To me, El Capitan reminds me of this picture I saw a while back:
Props to the person on deviantART who posted this.
Props to the person on deviantART who posted this.
Well, I call it " OS X La Bamba" because everytime I think about it, I can't help but singing "No yo soy marinero, soy capitan, soy capitan, soy capitan"
Heh, I posted the same thing in another thread yesterday.
I vote EC. Much easier.
Was/is Drake the name of an operating system?
I'm your senior by around seven years and I share your nationality (the design of MacRumors, showing locations with every post, positively encourages us to talk about geographies); I think first of Sir Francis.
Maybe Drake OS is better known in the west of England.
I think I'm going to skip Drake OS and wait for Raleigh OS, to better run my Mac Mini server, headless!
The EC version, and subsequent versions for five or ten years to come, will require a Browser Choice splash screen for every initial log in by a user.
Compliance with leg is lation inandaround my brit ish nationn, innit.
seriously though, what was/is the Drake reference?
He was the musician wearing the vintage Apple jacket who had some stage time.
I'd not heard of him before. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_(rapper)
Thanks to this thread, I'll probably think of La Bamba or Hotel California whenever I see/hear El Capitan.
I'd not heard of him before. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_(rapper)
Thanks to this thread, I'll probably think of La Bamba or Hotel California whenever I see/hear El Capitan.
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Ah, OK. Now it makes sense. (After reading Apple's page for 10.11, I realised that listening to, or watching, the keynote would be a waste of time for me.)
@travod there's no shortage of humour amongst the written replies to your poll … seriously, for moment, if you'd like to add a third option to the poll itself, I would like to vote:
- 10.11 ("ten point eleven")
Thanks
So far I have just been calling it "OS X 10.11" (Oh-Ess Ten, Ten Dot Eleven)
I remember I used to say "Oh-Ess Ten, Yosemite"
But when it came to version number, I say "Oh-Ess Axe, Ten point Ten"
Never mind 10.11 - its all bout 10.12 next year, when Craig Federighi announces that they went even further "within" to find the essence of what lives on the mountain that is in the park:
OS X Yogi Bear
OS X Yogi Bear
El Cappy actually. Having been a Captain and used to being called Cappy, it works for me.
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