How do you say...
 

Mac OS X?

Do you say "Mac OS TEN" or "Mac OS EX"?

Being a Windows refugee, I tend to say EX, even though I beleive the technically correct way is to say TEN. But at work there are some Mac junkies that say EX, so I don't know what to think sometimes.

I say Mac OS Ten. Some guy on the show The Screen Savers once said thats the "correct" way to say it.

Yeah but who listens to what they are told. :rolleyes:


Hrmm, strange, I somehow got a poll and a post? I blame a UFO.

Ten. (X is a Roman numeral.)

I say OS (E)X or Tiger/Panther etc. Also call it OS Ten if I feel like it.

If you're in the know then you don't really mind what someone calls it, as long you can figure it out.

A desireable twist
 

"Oh sex…"

:cool:



<filler words>

I get clients saying either one or both. One recent client tried to pronounce the whole thing as one word: mah-COE-six. It took me a while to figure out what they were talking about.

Or "Mac Oh-is-SeX"

Tell them to lay off the coffee! LOL

My generic term in "oh es ten." For a specific version, I say "oh es ten point four two." I skip the "X" altogether. I think Apple didn't think their naming convention through too well. It causes a lot of confusion for non-Mac people.

Merged the other thread into this one. There may be some duplications.

By the way, I say "OS Ex" or "Mac OS Ten" as the mood takes me. :)

Most often I say OS ten, but I didn't hear it pronounced until a few months after I read about it. And everywhere I read about it didn't specify, so I was in the habit of calling it X. Sometimes I say X, but it sounds odd to me now, so I correct myself.

Usually "X" when I use it generically for all 10.x versions, but the full number for a specific version. I can never remember which cat is which version though.

So what will they call OSXI? "Oh, Wessex eye?"

I'm pretty sure it's:
Cheetah => 10.0
Puma => 10.1
Jaguar => 10.2
Panther => 10.3
Tiger => 10.4
and I think I read somewhere
Leopard => 10.5

You are correct, sir!

Yay! Do I get a cookie?

Intriguing thread... I've never heard it called OS "ex" and I'm surprised at how many do call it that.

Do they also say things like:

I just loved the re-release of Star Wars Episode "eye-vee": A New Hope

Really looking forward to this year's SuperBowl "ex-ex-ex-eye-ex"

Sometimes it's obvious that the written characters are Roman numerals: Star Wars IV, Superbowl XXXIX, Copyright MCMLXCV (made that last one up, might not be a "real" number).

But a single letter? Much harder to tell: Version I, To V or not to V, Episode C, System X.

In fact much of the reason I thought it was the letter x instead of Roman numeral ten was because of the Unix underpinnings -- notably, the X11 window server. On BSD and Linux systems are many programs like xcalc, xemacs, xfoo, xbar. And those are letter x apps.

That makes sense. Especially I guess with the letter X, which gets awfully abused and overused these days. X-Men, Xtream, Vin Diesel starring in XXX.

Mac System OS EXTREME, cobranded with Mountain Dew?

You missed:

Liger => 10.8 :p

Didn't Apple get the GUI interface idea from 10ero10, only to have it copied by 1001-100rosoft?

Much my thinking too. I know X is roman numeral for 10, I know knew full well that it is/was OS 10, but it's always written like Mac OS X 10.4, so it's redundant if you say 10 as opposed to "ex". Plus with the BIG X on the box and screens it seemed natural to call it "ex". I also think confusion comes into play (at least for us that are "lifers") that they aren't continuing with XI, XII, XIII, XIV...etc.. instead its sub revisions, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and now 10.4. Makes you think, OS X version 10.whatever.

I say OS Ten. It just rolls of the tongue better than OS EX. Plus OS 9 was never OS "eye-ex"

Just a thought:

Do you ever think Apple will release two or three versions of OS X?
Examples:Mac OS X Home, Professional, Lite, and maybe even an EXTREME edition.

They would be stupid to. I can't see them ever doing it since OS X is all of those thing rolled into one! ;)

You missed.

What about 10.6 and 10.7?

10.6 Lion

10.7 Ocelot

;) ;)