Comment by semireg | Hacker News Reader

Comment by semireg | Hacker News Reader

The work days are long and the macOS versions are short.

Is it just me or does Snow Leopard feel like 4-5 years ago? I've been using macOS since the original X (10.0.0) was released. This is what getting old (40) feels like... Paired with a pandemic, Catalina feels like yesterday.

  Sonoma    14.1    2023
  Ventura   13.6    2022
  Monterey  12.7    2021
  Big Sur   11.7    2020
  Catalina  10.15   2019
  Mojave    10.14   2018
  H. Sierra 10.13   2017
  Sierra    10.12   2016
  El Cap    10.11   2015
  Yosemite  10.10   2014
  Mavericks 10.9    2013
  Mtn Lion  10.8    2012
  Lion      10.7    2011
  Snow Leo  10.6    2009
  Leopard   10.5    2007
  Tiger     10.4    2005
  Panther   10.3    2003
  Jaguar    10.2    2002
  Puma      10.1    2001
  Cheetah   10.0    2001

Edit: Years... like they mean anything, heh!

Snow Leopard was 2009. Didn’t check your other dates. I knew that was wrong as I had a 2008 aluminium unibody MacBook that shipped with Leopard and Snow Leopard came some time after I bought it.

Fixed. I was using "Date announced" instead of "Release date" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

Tiger was Spring of 2005, Leopard was Fall of 2007. That one was delayed several months because Apple had to divert resources to ship the first iPhone. Snow Leopard was Fall 2009, then Apple basically moved onto the yearly release cycle in Summer 2011 with Lion and moved it to Fall of every year with Mavericks in 2013.

I believe Mavericks was also when Apple stopped charging for OS upgrades.

It’s not just you — something happened with me where I mentally checked out from the MacOS train after Lion. The versions from Mavericks and up are “those newfangled versions with their silly names”. And Mavericks is 10 years old! Maybe it was the RDF wearing off.

SEA LION

They have all felt the same to me the last decade, I'm not sure what I am using at the moment.

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