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We will see the world burst into flames and every living thing die before we see Mac OS 13.

Just has too much of a negative connotation around the world.

 

Damn the superstitious!

 

Onto Mac OS 11.

Given the level of change that happened between OS 9 and OS X, it is difficult to come up with an actual list of what "could" change between them to warrant the new naming system.

Think about it this way, Apple likely has another 6 years before they need to worry about it anyways. They will likely milk out the OS X name for as long as they can.

 

There is also nothing to stop them from doing away with the "dot" name and calling it Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS X Cougar, Mac OS X Lion, Mac OS X Lynx, and so on.

 

In the end, it is difficult to see that far out even inside of Apple. Compare 8 years ago when we first saw OS X to what it is now. Now we have throw-away computers that are safely 10 times faster than the highest performance systems of the time. We have moved to an enviroment where widescreens and very high resolutions are the norm. We are on the verge of having touchscreens become extremely common and with that must come a major shift in UI design to allow for less precision input with greater precision control. In turn, most of the new user interfaces have either large buttons that are easily accessable fading into the UI when your hands are not present or going entirely with contextual input.

 

But at the end of the day, most of technology growth has been evolution over the past decade to which there really isn't that much further you can go. Sure you can change your filesystem and store every single version of every single file ever written in less space than it takes to store a single version now, but there really is not that much new that can be done.

 

Leopard gives Apple a chance to sell one new feature; ZFS: a filesystem which makes searching and storing data much easier and more efficient. All of the other additions that we have seen have been minor tweaks upon what has already been made so that it flows better and is more interconnected. Everything else that we have been shown is general maintenance and upkeep so that it "looks new". It would be difficult for the "end user" to justify upgrading to a New OS if all there was was new computer magic that stores files differently. In the end, most people will really not care about their filesystem or even know that it is there.

 

Walk into a Mac Store and start asking people "Do you know what HFS+ is?" if you don't believe me.

 

~Adrian

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OSXI: A new UI, filesystem and way of browsing files that completely changes the way you think about computers. Who knows, by that time we may be past holographic storage and on to using your brain to store data. Wouldn't it be cool to logon to your computer and have your account be the same everywhere. We only use a small portion of our brains, why not use the rest to hold our data? And moving right along with that idea...

 

OSXII: computer controlled by your thoughts

OSX XIII: computer controls your thoughts

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OS X 11 will run on the next-gen of the Iphone and it will have mind sensor but to enble it you will have to pay another extra 200 bucks.

 

Gt.

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If we are looking at 8 core MacPro's right around the corner. Think of a few years from now. We made the jump to 2 cores.. and that was a huge leap. I remember being a kid with my 386 PC thinking that a 14.4 modem was insane fast! And when I got the pentium 60, I thought I was never going to see anything better. But think. My cingular 8125 cell phone has more processing power then both of those combined. And thats not that long of a time period. Technology is going faster and faster. There is a lot of money in new technology, people eat it up. Look at all the hype of the iPhone. 1080p TV's. Think about 10 years from now when we have 1080p streaming to our 5 generation iPhone.

 

OS 11 will be insane.. who knows. By that time we will probally have dual 80 core processors, 4 gig of DDR9 video cards, 100 gig of ram in one stick. 50TB drives. 1GB per second airports.

 

Who knows. Technology is going so fast it could go anywhere.

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OSXI: A new UI, filesystem and way of browsing files that completely changes the way you think about computers. Who knows, by that time we may be past holographic storage and on to using your brain to store data. Wouldn't it be cool to logon to your computer and have your account be the same everywhere. We only use a small portion of our brains, why not use the rest to hold our data? And moving right along with that idea...

 

OSXII: computer controlled by your thoughts

OSX XIII: computer controls your thoughts

 

I wonder how many Gb/Tb/Yb? our brains have. haha. with that being said our minds controlling computers...that just sets us up for hackers to hack into our brains and make us do stuff! :mellow:

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"Robert Birge (Syracuse University) who studies the storage of data in proteins, estimated in 1996 that the memory capacity of the brain was between one and ten terabytes, with a most likely value of 3 terabytes. Such estimates are generally based on counting neurons and assuming each neuron holds 1 bit. Bear in mind that the brain has better algorithms for compressing certain types of information than computers do."

 

http://www.sizes.com/people/brain.htm

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"Robert Birge (Syracuse University) who studies the storage of data in proteins, estimated in 1996 that the memory capacity of the brain was between one and ten terabytes, with a most likely value of 3 terabytes. Such estimates are generally based on counting neurons and assuming each neuron holds 1 bit. Bear in mind that the brain has better algorithms for compressing certain types of information than computers do."

 

http://www.sizes.com/people/brain.htm

 

Not the entire brain is used for memory though, and unlike computers, memory in the brain don't necessarily "stick". Memory in the brain requires recruitment of new synapses and rewiring the information, not simply by adding a 0 or 1 which will stay 0 or 1 forever. A brain is more like a computer as a whole with different parts performing different functions. For instance, the frontal lobe is used for processing information and calculations, much like the CPU in a computer. You can carry memory from one part of the brain to the frontal lobe for processing, and then have it output as a motor response. Also, you have multiple inputs such as the sensation of pressure on the skin, temperature, visual, auditory etc like the different kinds of inputs you enter into a computer. It's quite interesting really.

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Wow, I don't even have a clue on how to read that one, but if I had to take a stab at it, Mac OS 27. But then why wouldn't it be Mac OS XXVII?

 

I am still waiting till we get Mac OS 30... Just wait till some marketing guy screws that one up.

 

Because Apple says "Think Different" calling it OS XI isn't thinking different :D sorry, that was a really bad joke

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