Mark Alexander
You're a bad man. You're a very bad man!
Irreverent, independent, and often snarky partnered married gay boomer and doggie dad who is tired of moral pontification by hypocritical conservative assholes and hate filled religious bigots.
Based on some recent incidents, let me reiterate: If you are the owner of a photo that appears on this site and wish it removed, you don't need to get all legal and send threatening letters and takedown notices; just email me with the photo's URL or leave a comment on the offending post and I will gladly remove it.
In other words…
Retirement
(That's actual number of calendar days. It's a whole lot less if you remove weekends and holidays. And even less than that if you calculate the actual number of days I have to go into the office!)
Learning Mac OSX when you are a long-time "PC" is kind of like being a DC-Universe fan (in my case, since about 1974) when the COOL thing is to be Marvel-Universe circa 1976. Yes, I like wholesome Superman more than conflicted Spider-Man. And I like twitchy Windows 7 more than Mac Lion. My MacBook Pro is fun. But if I have an emergency graphics job I have to get done RIGHT THIS FRICKIN' MINUTE? I'll fire up my Dell i5. I just will.
And talk about their "code name" for their basix OS. I'am on "lion" but where is it mentionned on my brand New MAc Mini? Surely not in the "About this computer" section, where it is only indicated : OS X 10.7.3!
I'm newish to the Apple universe (and still very stubbornly holding on to my PC as well). I first had a used PowerBook G4 that I sold on eBay, and bought a newer (still used) MacBook Pro to replace it. Figuring out WHICH versions they were was not easy. They actually DO have a numbering system, it's just arcane, and odd. I apparently have a MacBookPro4,1 (Early 2008). So much for simplicity!
I'm typing this on my MacBook Pro 5… oh… wait… no I'm not. It's just the MacBook Pro, and happens to be the fifth generation even though that never appears in the naming anywhere.
Oh… and Steve Jobs was alive when I bought it, so whatever.
On one hand, even Steve Jobs was doing the barely changed incremental updates. On the other, at least he didn't go backwards in version numbering. If anything he just changed the name. The iPad "Not 3" is just going to confuse so many people, unless they're saying they won't make another or that anything else is going to have a different name anyway.
The worst will be if they stop using numbers. Software can get away with that, especially if it always auto-updates so every developer knows their users always have the latest stable version. Hardware, not so much.