Apple Macintosh: Difference between revisions

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** John Hodgman himself, however, is a Mac user.

* [[Take That|Take Thats]] at Microsoft are strewn about as [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2007/06/apple-teases-mi/ Easter eggs.] The aforementioned egg also counts as a [[Heroic BSOD|Heroic]] / [[Villainous BSOD]].

* [[Team Pet]]: Clarus the [[Mix and Match Critters|Dogcow]], introduced in Apple's famous [http://clarus.chez-alice.fr/originals/tn31.html Tech Note 31]. Clarus originally came from one of Susan Kare's [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font designs]] and eventually became the standard image for printer setup dialog boxes. [http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1031.html Tech Note 1031] came along years later to show how to create a 3D rendering, as well as giving some of the history.

* [[Team Pet]]: Clarus the [[Mix-and-Match Critters|Dogcow]], introduced in Apple's famous [http://clarus.chez-alice.fr/originals/tn31.html Tech Note 31]. Clarus originally came from one of Susan Kare's [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font designs]] and eventually became the standard image for printer setup dialog boxes. [http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1031.html Tech Note 1031] came along years later to show how to create a 3D rendering, as well as giving some of the history.

* [[Theme Naming]]: OS X releases have been named after big cats (Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion and the forthcoming Mountain Lion<ref>Biology-inclined readers will note that a number of these are technically the same species</ref>), and later versions of the Classic OS had musical names (Tempo, Allegro, Sonata, Rhapsody [the first version of OS X], as well as the never-shipped Copland and the never-existed Gershwin).

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: The move from 68K to PowerPC, the move from OS 9 to OS X, and the move from PowerPC to Intel.

* [[Viewer Friendly Interface]]: The old-world PowerPC Macintoshes were the inspiration of this trope. Hardware errors are indicated with an Icon of a Sad Classic Macintosh with a bunch of (commonly ignored) numbers in small font underneath it and usually with a heart-skipping sound being played back from the speaker. Also, system crashes were indicated with just a [[Cartoon Bomb|large bomb]], a message saying that the system has crashed and needs to restart, and a restart button, with no technical details displayed at all.

* [[Viewer-Friendly Interface]]: The old-world PowerPC Macintoshes were the inspiration of this trope. Hardware errors are indicated with an Icon of a Sad Classic Macintosh with a bunch of (commonly ignored) numbers in small font underneath it and usually with a heart-skipping sound being played back from the speaker. Also, system crashes were indicated with just a [[Cartoon Bomb|large bomb]], a message saying that the system has crashed and needs to restart, and a restart button, with no technical details displayed at all.

* [[We Will Use Wiki Words in The Future]]: Apple was at least partly responsible for mainstreaming CamelCase terminology through the 1980s.

* [[Where Are They Now]]: Many of the original Mac development team left Apple to do great things in their own right, including Smith and Hertzfeld founding Radius to make graphics hardware for the Mac and Atkinson retiring from computers to become a nature photographer.

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