{"id":31711,"date":"2021-02-22T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31711"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T20:59:44","slug":"a-retrospective-look-at-mac-os-x-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/22\/a-retrospective-look-at-mac-os-x-snow-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morrick.me\/archives\/9220\">Riccardo Mori<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/morrick.me\/archives\/9220\">\n<p>So, I used Snow Leopard on my 2009 MacBook Pro for about three years, and then again on a 2010 Mac mini that a friend gave me to maintain, as a sort of offsite backup. That Mac mini was kept on Mac OS X 10.6.8 for the whole four years it was in my custody (2011&#x2013;2015) and it was switched off only twice during that period and maybe restarted four or five times in total. It enjoyed an insane uptime and it was a testament to Snow Leopard&rsquo;s stability.<\/p>\n<p>But back to my &lsquo;gut-reply&rsquo;, I wanted to be certain that my fond memories of Snow Leopard weren&rsquo;t just nostalgia. While I am confident when I say that Snow Leopard is the most stable version of Mac OS, I wanted to make sure its user interface was really the good user interface and experience I was remembering.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/30\/more-big-sur-ui-refinements\/\">More Big Sur UI Refinements<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"a-retrospective-look-at-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-update-2021-03-02\">Update (2021-03-02): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=26231212\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riccardo Mori: So, I used Snow Leopard on my 2009 MacBook Pro for about three years, and then again on a 2010 Mac mini that a friend gave me to maintain, as a sort of offsite backup. That Mac mini was kept on Mac OS X 10.6.8 for the whole four years it was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-02-22T21:34:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"2877e39e-da2b-4184-877f-cb4f8c85837c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-03-02T20:59:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKHfjntorQYSHf8tPjIWDfA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,77,295,30,210,626],"class_list":["post-31711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-design","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-snowleopard","tag-wallpaper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31766,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31711\/revisions\/31766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}