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Re: MacOS X 10.1 (2001)

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

donatj wrote: post #25
LeanderK wrote: post #2

Wow, unbelievable that it was designed in 2001! It still looks fresh and modern, although maybe a bit too playful so that it appears a bit childish? But only barely. It appears to have all the basic functionality expected from a modern operating system, I instantly feel right at home although I've never used it. I find the review terrible though, one of the major changes was the user interface, revolutionary I would…

I’d vote the opposite on the playful aspect. Todays UIs feel oppressively monotonous and lacking heart.

I miss the textured Aqua days. Peak was Leopard/Snow Leopard.

Flat is just so... flat. And boring.

And also harder to read, because it's harder to orient yourself in a big textureless area than in a space with some texture in it.

Re: MacOS X 10.1 (2001)

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Post by nazgulsenpai »

baal80spam wrote: post #10
darkstar_16 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feels playful because everything else from that era was ugly in my opinion

I wouldn't call XP (Luna) theme ugly. It wasn't as clean as Windows2k but it was just fine.

I found the bright blue taskbar and window decorators and the bright green start button, among other very bright and contrasting colors, quite the eyesore both at the time and now. Thankfully you could switch to the Windows Classic theme.

Re: MacOS X 10.1 (2001)

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Post by rsynnott »

jeroenhd wrote: post #4

Having never actually interacted with a mac from that era, are the grey and white stripes in the toolbar screenshots actually visible on the screen or are they an artifact of old screenshots on modern displays?

They were toned down a lot by the time most consumers saw this (I don’t think any machine actually shipped with 10.1? They stuck with MacOS9 until 10.2, iirc…) and totally vanished soon after. But they were there, to start with.

Re: MacOS X 10.1 (2001)

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Post by tyingq »

lannisterstark wrote: post #3
LeanderK wrote: post #2

Wow, unbelievable that it was designed in 2001! It still looks fresh and modern, although maybe a bit too playful so that it appears a bit childish? But only barely. It appears to have all the basic functionality expected from a modern operating system, I instantly feel right at home although I've never used it. I find the review terrible though, one of the major changes was the user interface, revolutionary I would…

Where's the childish part? Didn't notice anything.

Maybe a few things like the finder and iTunes icons and the default choices for user pictures, but otherwise I agree.

Re: MacOS X 10.1 (2001)

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Post by spatulon »

gmac wrote: post #12
neilalexander wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are visible. It was a design element throughout the UI at the time.

They matched the iMac case's stripes. See: https://www.theregister.com/2010/11/29/bondi_blue_imac/

Yes, and it was actually Microsoft who first brought the iMac stripes to Mac software with Internet Explorer 5, before OS X.

Re: MacOS X 10.1 (2001)

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Post by linguae »

vbezhenar wrote: post #29
baal80spam wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't call XP (Luna) theme ugly. It wasn't as clean as Windows2k but it was just fine.

Everything after Windows 2000 was ugly. Windows 2000 was the last system in the world with coherent and beautiful UI. Those times are over. We can't have good things.

I disagree; I love pre-flat Mac OS X. I think Aero from Windows Vista and 7 was nice (even if I preferred the Windows Classic theme), and GNOME 2 was well-done and consistent if you stuck to applications written using GTK+ 2.

I concur that I’m not a fan of modern UI/UX, though. Give me the interfaces and the UI guidelines of Mac OS 8, Windows 2000, and Mac OS X Tiger (with Spotlight) any day.

Re: MacOS X 10.1 (2001)

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Post by mort96 »

vbezhenar wrote: post #29
baal80spam wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't call XP (Luna) theme ugly. It wasn't as clean as Windows2k but it was just fine.

Everything after Windows 2000 was ugly. Windows 2000 was the last system in the world with coherent and beautiful UI. Those times are over. We can't have good things.

Hard disagree, Windows 2000's large swathes of grey doesn't look good to me at all.

Re: MacOS X 10.1 (2001)

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Post by actionfromafar »

ArtWomb wrote: post #26
LeanderK wrote: post #2

Wow, unbelievable that it was designed in 2001! It still looks fresh and modern, although maybe a bit too playful so that it appears a bit childish? But only barely. It appears to have all the basic functionality expected from a modern operating system, I instantly feel right at home although I've never used it. I find the review terrible though, one of the major changes was the user interface, revolutionary I would…

Circa 2000 I recall playing with a developers beta version of MacOS X approx 6 months or so pre-release. The move from motorola based power pc chips to x86 already felt a decade too late. And the nextstep & netbsd origins? Very "meh". Apache, Mosaic, Napster all crashing hard requiring system reboots. Apple was playing catch-up to professional grade sgi & sunos (which is what every one was using to build the early we…

Just so nobody gets confused, x86 support was released in 2006.
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