Flickr Find: Mac OS 10.0 UI

Reader and Flickr user ismh has posted a series of screenshots of Mac OS 10.0 to our Flickr pool. It was just seven years ago -- March of 2001 -- that Mac OS 10.0 was released to the waiting masses. I distinctly remember driving to my local authorized retailer to buy a copy, and then quickly rushing home to install it on my 333mhz G3 iMac.

What I apparently fogot was how different the UI was. Remember the pinstripes? How about Sherlock? And don't miss the list of supported hardware, including the iBook, the PowerBook G3, The Power Macintosh G3 and the good 'ol Power Mac G4.

I also remember slower-than-molasses performance and aqua lozenge buttons everywhere. Oh, Mac OS X. How you've changed.

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Reader and Flickr user ismh has posted a series of screenshots of Mac OS 10.0 to our Flickr pool. It was just seven years ago -- March of...

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xja85mac

Pinstripes are gorgeous in Tiger, tough they were disturbing in 10.0.

Apple means innovation.

September 05 2008 at 4:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kcfoster

My favorite was the free itools, currently named mobileme. The name has changed twice but the service is pretty much the same.

September 05 2008 at 3:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stephen

The most interesting part of all of this is to see that how OS X FEELS hasn't changed much.

September 04 2008 at 11:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kjester

what was sherlock??????

search for everything -- (in theory) -- find nothing (in actuality).

September 04 2008 at 7:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cowboy_X

Sherlock? I remember it being there. I have never in my life heard of someone actually using it.

September 04 2008 at 6:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kms007

I jumped in at 10.1 and haven't looked back. Bring on Snow Leopard!

September 04 2008 at 6:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cpb

what the hell was sherlock?

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xja85mac

Never used Sherlock, I don't know why they still include it in OS X.
This is supposed to be a search tool, but the integrated Google search field in Safari is way better, it's in the place where you need it, why should you run another app to do it in the browser (where Sherlock will eventually bring you?).

September 05 2008 at 4:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mehdi

i'm an apple fan, top to bottom...
but honestly, didn't windows XP look better than the two first versions of mac os x?

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south

only if you think blue, green and red look fantastic together.

September 05 2008 at 8:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gene

Even better was the Beta, which had the Apple logo centered smack in the menubar. I have NO idea what they were thinking on that one -- even Apple's own apps have menus that stretch past the middle of the screen, what would have happened to the Apple then?

September 04 2008 at 3:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Darren Scantlebury-Watson

Let's home someone puts together galleries of the Mac OS X Public Beta and - my personal favorite - the original (Rhapsody UI) version of Mac OS X Server :-)

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Tom

I'll have to take some screenshots of it next time I boot the beta. I've got every version of the client from the beta to 10.5 booting on my old G4 Cube. Ended up having to change the 10.5 minimum requirements to get it to load, but until 10.6 comes out, that hardware is capable of running every public release.

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Robert Jones

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/rhapsodydr2

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