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What's your favorite version of Mac OS?
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I really liked Mac OS X Tiger. It was a great OS and still is.
In fact, my brothers still use it regularly for Microsoft Office, iTunes, and web browsing.
In fact, my brothers still use it regularly for Microsoft Office, iTunes, and web browsing.
Never had any trouble with Snow Leopard. Upgraded to Lion, didn't like it, downgraded back to SL. 
I believe they use all the old versions, but they still web browse with it as if it were a new computer... flash video and everything. It's pretty awesome seeing a 6 year old computer being used regularly.
Cooperative multi-tasking kills everything before OS X for me.
Frankly, I have no favorites in the different cats, they're all good Unix systems to me.
Snow Leopard rating so high is not surprising. What is surprising is that Leopard rates so low, and that pre-OS X operating systems rate so high (the nostalgic "good old days" factor?)
Perhaps Leopard is regarded as a very imperfect Snow Leopard. But here, even Tiger rates way higher than Leopard.
Perhaps Leopard is regarded as a very imperfect Snow Leopard. But here, even Tiger rates way higher than Leopard.
I think it's the fact that Snow Leopard is basically just an "improved" Leopard. I don't think there is a single thing worse in Snow Leopard than in Leopard.
With that, Leopard changed a lot of things from Tiger. Tiger is the last version of OSX before they changed a lot of the UI features and the way a lot of things worked.
And yeah, I think the reason the Mac Classic is rated so highly is nostalgia...
While I did love it at the time, whenever I load up Sheepshaver I cringe... it's just awful.
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My favorite Version is Snow leopard or tiger hard to choose. I hate Lion it brought a bunch of unnecessary changes.
Snow Leopard, light weight and stable. I miss it. Lion is fairly new, i wanted to give it a try. Who knows it might change my preference.
Panther. I have many happy memories of using it as a kid. Apple was so much cooler back then IMO.
From a technical standpoint, Snow Leopard and Lion get honourable mentions. SL because it was completely 64-bit-ized, introduced GCD and OpenCL, etc. Lion because of its greatly enhanced security, built-in Xsan support, and so fourth. Under the hood stuff, really.
From a technical standpoint, Snow Leopard and Lion get honourable mentions. SL because it was completely 64-bit-ized, introduced GCD and OpenCL, etc. Lion because of its greatly enhanced security, built-in Xsan support, and so fourth. Under the hood stuff, really.
I liked Panther, is that when Expose was first released? That was a great feature. Also liked Tiger for Spotlight.
I like the new OS but I miss having some color in the controls. Lion is just so gray....Can anyone tell me why it is better to have toolbar buttons with no color?
I like the new OS but I miss having some color in the controls. Lion is just so gray....Can anyone tell me why it is better to have toolbar buttons with no color?
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Panther gets my vote.
It was Panther on an iBook G4 800MHz that introduced me to the whole Apple computing world and the fond memories using something so different to what I was used to puts it above the rest. Just seeing Expose for the first time and setting up my hot corners to multitask seemed so ahead of anything I'd used before.
Such a good thread reading everyone else's choices. I'll remain subscribed to this one too see what else people prefer and why.
Panther gets my vote.
It was Panther on an iBook G4 800MHz that introduced me to the whole Apple computing world and the fond memories using something so different to what I was used to puts it above the rest. Just seeing Expose for the first time and setting up my hot corners to multitask seemed so ahead of anything I'd used before.
Such a good thread reading everyone else's choices. I'll remain subscribed to this one too see what else people prefer and why.
Mac OS X Server 1.x?
Voted for Lion, as it is the favorite OS to me now.
But, if I added "at the time", it might be Mac OS X Server 1.x
IMHO Mac OS 9 was really lagging compared to Windows 2000. Having Apple release the first UNIX based OS publicly was very cool.
Mac OS X Server 1.x wasn't for the end user. But it was great to try out as a System Admin, seeing the NeXTSTEP - Rhapsody development being giving a "Mac OS" make-over, i.e. the Platinum interface.
Having iMacs NetBooting off a G3 Server running Mac OS X Server 1.x was very cool to play around with.
@ OP, care to add "Mac OS X Server 1.x"?
Voted for Lion, as it is the favorite OS to me now.
But, if I added "at the time", it might be Mac OS X Server 1.x
IMHO Mac OS 9 was really lagging compared to Windows 2000. Having Apple release the first UNIX based OS publicly was very cool.
Mac OS X Server 1.x wasn't for the end user. But it was great to try out as a System Admin, seeing the NeXTSTEP - Rhapsody development being giving a "Mac OS" make-over, i.e. the Platinum interface.
Having iMacs NetBooting off a G3 Server running Mac OS X Server 1.x was very cool to play around with.
@ OP, care to add "Mac OS X Server 1.x"?
What's your favorite version of OS X and why?
You don't have to be limited by one, though, for example, I like 10.0 because of all the stripes, but my favorite version with functionality in mind is Snow Leopard because it was super stable, looked nice (the finder icons still had color I'm pretty sure) It was all around a really solid OS. Panther had a sweet default background.
You don't have to be limited by one, though, for example, I like 10.0 because of all the stripes, but my favorite version with functionality in mind is Snow Leopard because it was super stable, looked nice (the finder icons still had color I'm pretty sure) It was all around a really solid OS. Panther had a sweet default background.
