Talk:MacOS/Archive 10

Hack your G3?
In my opinion, this sounds like a guide for geeks who like home-made computer modifications. I moved it here for the moment. I guess it could be put back in the article with one or more references. Dravick (talk) 05:30, 16 December 2008 (UTC) "A few early adopters experienced a surprise: Mac OS X was supported on Mac OS machines that came with a G3 or later processor from the factory—not machines with third-party processor cards. For example, a Power Mac 7300 whose CPU chip failed could be easily upgraded with a G3 processor on a 'daughter card,' which often cost nearly the same as an exact replacement of the original chip. The user could then go to the same store and buy the Mac OS X upgrade on CD-ROM. This is not guaranteed to work, however."

does mac os x work with non-MAC pc
is there any solution to work with mac os x in non-mac pc. if so, how to install it on non-mac pc.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.200.67.4 (talk) 16:36, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * See OSx86. I think it's not exactly legal. Dravick (talk) 21:27, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Good Article Nomination
A lot of work still needs to be done to reach FA, but I'm pretty sure it's at least a good article as it is. Matters from the previous GA-delisting have been addressed. Obviously I can't review it myself, so I'm calling for a review. Dravick (talk) 02:55, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Cheers. I was considering re-nominating it soon myself. Let's get it passed. Nja 247 (talk • contribs) 08:58, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Architecture
Hmm, I must say I am unconvinced by this new "architecture" section. Basically, just putting the non-free drawing from apple website would be the best way to show the architecture, but because we can't really do that we copy each line in a list? I'm sceptical that this is the way to go. For one thing, it would be much better if translated to prose, but even then it is my opinion that this information is not interesting enough to be there. Of course, that does not mean that it should be like that, so I would feel bad to remove it althogether. My motivation is that some day after much work, this article will become a FA. What are your thoughts about it? Dravick (talk) 17:07, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Agreed. There is already an Architecture of Mac OS X article linked. MFNickster (talk) 19:00, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Specious/redundant comments and comparisons
I found several items in this article that drew specious comparisons that I think should be cleaned up.


 * In the section "Description", the statement is made "Furthermore, while the market share of Mac OS X has been growing on average, its growth is slower than, for example, Windows Vista, both of which competes to replace Windows XP." Grammatical errors aside, comparing the rate that users upgrade Windows against overall growth-rate of an OS is specious.  If a comparison is to be made, either compare overall OS marketshare vs. OS marketshare, or compare adoption of Vista from XP to OS X Leopard from Tiger.  I propose this entire sentence be removed, but didn't want to do it without discussion.
 * Well, I agree with you, but it ended up there because of a request from GA reviewer Talk:Mac_OS_X/GA2, so I don't know what to say. Dravick (talk) 08:45, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I suggest the relevant comparison would be Win XP+Vista vs Mac OS (all versions), since release of OS X. --Philcha (talk) 21:06, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


 * In "The Finder", the statement "It has been the subject of some criticisms." is added, almost as an afterthought. I feel this is unnecessary -- what program is not "the subject of some criticism"?  There's already a link to this article at the beginning of the line, there isn't a need for a second reference in the same.  This does not add to our knowledge of Finder.
 * That was done to avoid a copy/paste of essentially the same information from the article it links to. Nja 247 (talk • contribs) 09:07, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Same in "The Dock": "Like the Finder, the dock has had some usability criticisms." Redundant reference and doesn't add to the topic.
 * Same as above (avoiding repetitive information and to avoid making this article too long). Nja 247 (talk • contribs) 09:07, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah definitely both those sections need some attention. Dravick (talk) 08:45, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

--Alphaman (talk) 05:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Filesystem compatibility?
One thing lacking in many os X articles is a mention of, in spite of the os's *nix qualities and components, its lack of support for other *nix-y filesystems. To my knowledge OS X supports only HFS+, HFS (both journaled and non-journaled),UFS, AFP, ISO 9660, FAT(32), UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS (read only), FTP, WebDAV and ZFS (read-only). With appications such as macFUSE it can deal with a few more "foreign" filesysems, but it still lacks support for XFS, ZFS, and many others. Worthy of mention here? THE PROMENADER  21:30, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I think thats worth mentioning, though I've never even heard of XFS before... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Photographerguy (talk • contribs) 21:45, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Does this have any impact on its ability to share files with other systems, or is it just an internal matter of disk space maamnegement? --Philcha (talk) 22:20, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Not really. An inability to read/write, for example XFS or another format, is never really an issue. If the sharing occurs over a network the server can "translate" a foreign file system. Photographerguy (talk) 23:03, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sure it is an issue. The only means that OS X has of using filesystems "foreign" to its own compatibilities is through either NFS mounts ("translation" left to the exporting sub-server-space, slow performance, no direct I/O possible with the sub-server) or macFuse (although faster because working in the client-space, with a sub-server I/O bypass possible, it has only a few "translations" available to date). This is a an extreme limitation for mac OS X server: it can only work at high-performance filesharing levels with "native" filesystems - or in other words, other xServes. THE PROMENADER  08:32, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * As always, if you find enough expert opinion that this is an issue, by all means add a mention of it, with appropriate references. Dravick (talk) 17:26, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry but that doesn't really make sense. You are claiming that Mac OS X gets a performance hit while talking to servers that run filesystems that it doesn't support natively? When one server talks to another, what does the native filesystem have to do with anything? If you are transferring files from one machine to another, you are going to be using a protocol like NFS, SMB, AFP, etc. Not making native file system calls. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 18:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * If you consider the speed gains through using direct I/O transfer, a feature that is only possible between computers using the same filesystem, then yes, I would consider having to fall back to NFS a 'performance hit'. Some *nix filesystems are made for performance - XFS for large-volume files, for example - so there are speed/functionality gains to be had there, too. THE PROMENADER  07:25, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, if you are talking about direct I/O transfer as implemented in the AIX and Linux kernels, that has nothing to do with transferring files between computers. That is just about letting applications read/write files directly from a disk instead of the contents going through the kernel cache. Which is just as likely to cause a performance hit because with normal I/O there is a chance that the blocks you want are already in the cache. Or am I barking up the wrong tree and you are talking about something completely different? AlistairMcMillan (talk) 22:40, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmm, we seem to be getting into a techie discussion here rather than talking about the article ; ) Yes, I was talking about the internal I/O of both linked servers - through NFS, the transferred info has to go through two caches/CPU's (one on each server) instead of one, as the filesystem translation/transfer is not imported into userspace as it is using applications such as FUSE. I could point you to some benchmark sites if you like - I'm going to have to anyways if I want sources for the article. Cheers. THE PROMENADER  07:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * To get this into the article you need to point to someone who says the lack of XFS, ZFS write, etc is a detriment. BTW Are you sure that FUSE doesn't use F_NOCACHE (the Mac OS X equivalent of DIO)? AlistairMcMillan (talk) 13:10, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Let's just say that mac OS X has adopted a *nix-y system without the *nix filesystem compatibility. Yes, fuse uses the F_NOCACHE, but as long as the filesystem in question is importable to the userspace. THE PROMENADER  20:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * So the FUSE filesystems allow DIO. ZFS is available as a native filesystem for those that want it. The only one you've mentioned that doesn't seem to be available is XFS. Are there other filesystems? AlistairMcMillan (talk) 00:54, 5 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes - I'll do the research and provide some sources before adding anything. There's already a good source here : Comparison_of_file_systems and here Comparison_of_operating_systems. Cheers. THE PROMENADER  06:28, 5 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Please keep in mind that Wikipedia articles can't be used as sources. And even though it looks like a lot of the content of the filesystem article is cited, it is actually just pointing to notes. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 19:31, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

iPhone OS subsection in Versions?
I think there should be a section about the iPhone OS in the Version section since the iPhone OS is based on Mac OS X. Yes/no? Photographerguy (talk) 23:05, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know. From my point of view, we know nothing about it, else than "the iPhone runs OS X", to quote Steve Jobs. If you have some good references, then sure go ahead and add a section, but don't just add speculations without any sources. Dravick (talk) 17:22, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually there is quite an extensive article about the iPhone OS. That's why I'm thinking there should be some mention of it here, other than the see also section. It would be easy to add to - just a copy and paste with a little editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Photographerguy (talk • contribs) 22:58, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Done. Added a new section about the iPhone OS. Photographerguy (talk) 23:52, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * User_talk:AlistairMcMillan deleted the new section about the iPhone OS on the basis that it was copied and pasted from the Main iPhone OS article. What does everybody think about including this section? I obviously think it should be included, but I won't put it back until I can get some more input... Photographerguy (talk) 01:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * There's really no reason to have a section that simply summarises what's already said in another article. A simple link: Main article, or See also should suffice. Nja 247 (talk • contribs) 11:53, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Possibly expand a little on the last paragraph of the intro (the one that starts "Apple also produces specialized versions of Mac OS X...") and link iPhone OS there. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 22:02, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Actually possibly an interesting section could be written on how the derivatives differ from Mac OS X. Mentioning that most of the backward-compatible stuff has been removed (Classic, Carbon UI, etc). Mentioning that each version has a specialised UI that is quite different from the Mac OS X UI. Something like that, maybe. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 22:14, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

There is actually a lot of commentary to the contrary...

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t38231.html

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/13/1746234-- KelvinHO Wiknerd ( talk ) 13:34, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry this isn't a debate on whether the iPhone runs some version of Mac OS X. We know it does. The debate is how much detail on the iPhone version do we want in the Mac OS X article. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 17:53, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Mac OS X refers to the desktop operating system, iPhone OS refers to the mobile operating system. It's like comparing it to Windows Mobile. You can't install a copy of Leopard on your iPhone, and you cant run a copy of iPhone OS X on your Mac, even though they're based on the same code. I heard that Apple is/wants to register "OS X". Maybe an article entitled "OS X" could be made, mentioning both "OS X"s? Because it doesn't really seem right to mention the iPhone's operating system here when Mac OS X always and only refers to the version which runs on Macs, and there exists an iPhone OS article. Then again, I suppose it can't hurt to add a section about the iPhone OS as being based on the Mac code? Althepal (talk) 21:49, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Please tell me if I'm wrong here, but the iPhone OS is not really running OS X because it's not running Darwin, which OS X is based on. Though legally speaking Apple is allowed to brand anything OS X -- KelvinHO Wiknerd ( talk ) 14:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry but the iPhone OS is based on Darwin. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 19:17, 9 February 2009 (UTC)


 * And Althepal, what the hell are you talking about? They started with the Mac OS X code, you say yourself they are based on the same code. For gods sake, we already mention the iPhone OS in the Mac OS X article, that isn't the debate. The debate was, how much do we say about it? AlistairMcMillan (talk) 19:20, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, no more than a paragraph. Althepal (talk) 21:15, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Mac OS X market share comparison?
"Furthermore, while the growth of Mac OS X market share is slower than that of Windows Vista,"

I dispute the usage of Windows Vista for a comparison. Windows Vista is a version of Windows. Mac OS X is an operating system. The "growth" of Windows Vista should be called "adoption rate". When you want to compare, either compare Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's adoption rate with that of Vista, or Mac OS X with Windows.-- KelvinHO Wiknerd ( talk ) 13:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. A comparison of raw numbers moving from XP is not fair, since people tend to upgrade within their OS (and the fact is that OS X is growing compared to Windows). Althepal (talk) 21:59, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

X is for...
The article currently states that the X stands for the Roman numeral 10. But doesn't the X also reflect the Unixoid architecture (like in similar OS'es as Linux, Aix, etc.) of OSX and was thus the reason to choose the Roman numeral "X" over "10"? -- megA (talk) 11:46, 6 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Source? AlistairMcMillan (talk) 01:51, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * In the link I found a while ago it clearly states 'pronounced "Mac O-S ten"' (on apple site). That clears the debate on how to pronounce it. As of its meaning and philosophical reasons, wikipedia might not be the right place to speculate about that. Dravick (talk) 22:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Why not call it OS 10, then? (Makes you wonder if there will ever be a OS XI or OS 11?) Actually, I found the UniX thing on the German Wikipedia article, where it reads: "[Apart from the roman numeral, it] also follows the tradition of other Unix derivates, whose names almost exclusively end with an X, such as AIX, IRIX, A/UX, Sinix, HP-UX und Xenix."They don't cite any source, though. -- megA (talk) 13:37, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I would venture to say that they used the X instead of 10 because OS X was really completely different than OS 9, unlike OS 9 vs OS 8 for example. This is only my opinion, and that is the reason it does not end up in an encyclopedia. It is likely that it also has a relationship with the fact that it is a unix, but that's just speculation. Dravick (talk) 01:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Unless someone at Apple comes out and says something different than what has been said over the last nine years, then the correct answer is that the X represents the Roman numeral ten. Ideas along the lines of a relationship to standard practice in Unix operating system naming, or to the name of its predecessor (NextStep), or the pop-culture popularity of the letter at the time, or anything else is speculative.  It's easy to picture Jobs, Schiller et al. sitting around a table brainstorming this one and using all of those things as a rationale for the choice of name... but unless someone pipes up about it, we're stuck with what we've got.  Warren -talk- 02:12, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

It officially stands for 10. That's what Apple says. However, I've always said it as "ex". Apple uses the letter X (and the term OS X) for a reason. Maybe it's to be cool, maybe it's for "unix". I think it started out as just a cool way of writing 10 and Apple was going to make Mac OS 11 after a few years (evidenced by the free minorish upgrade to version 10.1), but eventually it developed into its own family and it became (at least popularly) Mac OS ex. As something different, not just version 10 of Mac OS. I feel more strongly about this now with QuickTime X which is really version 8. We're not going to start calling this Quick Time Ten are we? To summarize, I think it kind of really is Mac OS EX but this is a fact-based encyclopedia and the official pronunciation is 10. How everybody says it is totally separate. Althepal (talk) 01:21, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

"Human" language explanation
From User:AlistairMcMillan summary:

"As opposed to... Cylon languages, or dog languages, or what?"

I meant as opposed to programming language, which is the topic just before. Dravick (talk) 07:04, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

"Should we lock this page?"
Should we lock the Mac OS X page? This is a very important page I mean the Windows 7 page is locked up from editing. I know that's the fear that some one might put something horrible about Windows but the same could be said for the Mac OS.


 * Locking is only for extreme persistent cases of vandalism. Right now there isn't the level of vandalism that would warrant locking the page. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 00:39, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Licensing
Is there any AT&T/Novell or CMU-copyrighted code still in the OS? If so, was a license purchased outright? If not, when was it purged? -- Beland (talk) 15:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * There are a variety of copyright notices on the Mac OS X code. Most of them are pretty close to the BSD license (which is also present on a large number of files), in that the only condition is that the copyright notice is not removed. BTW You do know that the kernel code is available online. http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/Current/ AlistairMcMillan (talk) 18:33, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * To answer your question exactly. CMU licenses all over the place. No Novell licenses. There are a few files with AT&T licenses, which have come to Mac OS X via Sun, relate to DTrace and were released under Sun's CDDL. So purchasing a license wasn't necessary. And purging wasn't necessary since Mach was released under an essentially "free" license. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 19:14, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Version images?
On February 8, User:Dravick removed the screenshot thumbnails of the various versions of Mac OS X (from public beta to Leopard). I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I always found the images and section breaks to make the article and history of OS X much easier to navigate and read. Who wants to stare at a plain old chunk of text? So I'm asking, do the rest of you want these images removed or restored? I say restore them. Althepal (talk) 00:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree, it was better with the images.Photographerguy (talk) 02:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

That was done for GA evaluation. Actual message from GA reviewer:
 * "Regarding the many images in the "Versions" section, I'm not so sure that they pass as accepted non-free content. The images are more appropriate in their own articles—where they already are, so they should most likely be removed from this article. It would also help to remove all the whitespace between the sections, which at least for me I am seeing."

I think he is right, that's why I removed them. Dravick (talk) 20:24, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * How is it not fair use? It's in the better interest of the article to have the thumbnails. Althepal (talk) 22:53, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Ten or X?
Why is it that so many people are against even mentioning that many people say the letter X, instead of the number 10? I thought this was wikipedia, and we wanted to include as much information as possible, not exclude it.ZooCrewMan (talk) 19:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry but that is a common misconception. The goal of Wikipedia is not to include as much information as possible. The purpose of an encyclopaedia is to provide a summary, not explain every little detail. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 22:40, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is indeed meant to collect information from varied sources, but per WP:NOR: "Wikipedia does not publish original research or original thought. This includes unpublished facts, arguments, speculation, and ideas; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position. This means that Wikipedia is not the place to publish your own opinions, experiences, or arguments." So unless a notable publication has written something significant about the unofficial pronunciation, it falls under users' experiences, which are not encyclopedic. MFNickster (talk) 22:56, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Do I need a scholarly journal to cite if I were to say "some fire engines are painted red"? Or is it necessary to find an article somewhere that says most people in the United States sleep on a piece of furniture called a "bed"? Now, if I were making the claim that "Mac OS X is the best built, best functioning OS ever" I would need to back that up by an outside source. But on what people call the damned thing?!
 * Nobody is going to take the time to write and publish a work on how people pronounce the X in Mac OS X. You know, and I know, and everyone else in the english speaking world know, that many people pronounce the letter X and not the number 10.ZooCrewMan (talk) 23:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Fascinating. People mis-pronounce things. Who could'a guessed.


 * This has been discussed a number of times and each time it has resulted in that information being removed from the article. It's up to you how much more time you want to waste trying to insert this trivial little fact into the article. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 23:47, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Wow. Thanks for showing me the light. You're right... because it's a mis-pronunciation means it has no place on wikipedia. You're right, I shouldn't be wasting my time trying to include a very common variation of a name. Thank You so much for showing me that even-though something is very commonly said, that it's still wrong; and that I'm wrong for trying to include it!ZooCrewMan (talk) 00:18, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It is trivial, but not really a big deal if included (to me anyhow). I myself call it X. Does it matter to me if it's in the article? No. But it wouldn't be the end of Wikipedia if it was. Nja <em style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#63D1F4">247 00:36, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I hear this pronunciation often enough that it seems sufficiently notable for inclusion in the introduction. (Encyclopedias are descriptive and not prescriptive, after all.) I believe even Steve Jobs occasionally says . We're going to have some serious difficulty finding a reference documenting this variant, though. —Nima Khazaei (talk) 03:29, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I believe even Steve Jobs occasionally says . I would be very interested in seeing an example of that! MFNickster (talk) 06:20, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Me too, however generally there's no need to scour the net for an example to include a small line in the article, eg 'pronounced as X (versus 10) by some'. <em style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#6600CC">Nja <em style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#63D1F4">247 10:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Here is a writer from CNET if someone really really want a mention of it in the article. Dravick (talk) 16:40, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Seriously? A guy who admits it's a mistake, but says he's going to keep saying it that way just to annoy Apple fans? :) MFNickster (talk) 01:17, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Well I really could not care less about this issue, but if someone wants to mention that "some people pronounce blahblahblah" this would probably qualify as a source. Dravick (talk) 02:05, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The writer says nothing about it being a common mispronunciation. In any case, it needs to be notable in addition to being reliably sourced.  Like AlistairMcMillan, I think it's trivial. —EqualRights (talk) 04:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It would absolutely qualify as a source, though it's questionable whether one was really needed in this situation. The fact that he admits it was a mistake is perfect since the whole point of the very uncontroversial sentence that is trying to be added is to note it's incorrectly pronounced as the letter x by some. Also the fact that he doesn't say it's a common mispronunciation is irrelevant as we're not trying to prove that. The only thing trying to be demonstrated is that it is sometimes said incorrectly as the letter x, not 10. This is really being blown into a huge deal here and as it has come up so many times wouldn't it be nice to just add six new words to the article and be done with it? It'd be sad if this has to go through dispute resolution because a simple compromise cannot be reached. I propose: Mac OS X (pronounced /mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn/, though incorrectly by some as OS Eks). <em style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#6600CC">Nja <em style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#63D1F4">247 08:26, 9 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I will argue pretty stringently against putting it anywhere near the first sentence of the article. As you keep pointing out, it's not that important.  The lead is there to introduce the topic, not to document the variety of ways that people mispronounce the topic's name.  The pronunciation issue is covered at the beginning of the Versions section of the article, which is fine.  <span style="color:#1018ff;font-family:Zapfino,Monotype Corsiva;"> Warren -talk- 10:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * And so it is. Not sure how that was missed in this discussion. However, wouldn't it be nice to just have this recurrent discussion go away with just a handful of words straight away? Other elements of the intro are repeated, and obviously since this issue seems to always pop-up the current way things are in the article doesn't seem to be good enough. I say add a few words straight away and end it once and for all and just maybe we can concentrate on real issues and get this article GA again. This unmovable stance taken by some has created a situation that never seems to end and I think it's time for compromise or as an unfortunate last resort DR. <em style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#6600CC">Nja <em style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#63D1F4">247 10:24, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The text violates WP:WEASEL and still does not demonstrate notability. —EqualRights (talk) 11:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * What text are you speaking of? If you're speaking of my proposal, then you're blindly using guidelines to actually hurt the quality of Wikipedia, which is not what they're for. I believe it's notable enough that this is spoke of so damn much here and always bickered about. If it wasn't notable no one would bother. Plus we have a source showing people do mispronounce it. This article recently failed a GA re-assessment, yet it's so important to waste time over this (what amounts to clarifying an issue straight away in under ten words)! Many of the archives for this page contain a discussion on this very topic and it is time it is resolved through compromise since apparently the way it's been done is not working. If you're unhappy with my proposal then please suggest a new one that actually shows a compromise rather than sticking to the status quo which has failed. Blindly lawyering me about guidelines will be ineffective as what I'm looking for is compromise and consensus. Even the Simple English Wikipedians got it better: The "X" in Mac OS X, which is read aloud as "Mac Oh Ess Ten," comes from roman numerals. If we stuck that in the intro personally I think it'd be sorted and that extra bit stuck down way in the versions section can be chopped. <em style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#6600CC">Nja <em style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#63D1F4">247 12:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * (Both texts.) And now it's time for the obligatory WP:AGF and WP:CALM reminders; neither of us has a monopoly on wishing to improve Wikipedia.  —EqualRights (talk) 13:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

This subject is fascinating. If we're going to mention that people incorrectly say "Mac OS Exs", I vote that we also mention that people frequently write the name wrongly as "Macintosh OS X", or "MacOS X", or "Mac OSX", or "MacOSX"... We could have a whole section listing all the wrong ways to pronounce or write the word. Oo, we could also mention that people sometimes forget the "v" in "Mac OS X v10.4"...

One we've solved this vexing issue I propose that we turn our attention to amending the Windows article to point out that Scottish people pronounce it "Windaes". AlistairMcMillan (talk) 19:10, 9 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, grow up. ZooCrewMan (talk) 02:50, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Or Italians who pronounce Vista with a hard E... yup, I've been through that argument, too. sigh...  <span style="color:#1018ff;font-family:Zapfino,Monotype Corsiva;"> Warren -talk- 21:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)