coolied Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 I say Oh-Ess-Ten if i'm talking about the OS itself. However, when talking about the OSX86 project, I call is Oh-Ess-Ex-Eighty-Six; because Oh-Ess-Ten-Eighty-Six sounds stupid to me for some reason. I mean i hardly ever call it os 10, i generally say Mac OS Leopard. You know, that's the most sensible answer here. Windows users don't call XP "Windows NT 5.1/5.2", we call it XP. And i've never heard of Vista being referred to as "Windows NT 6.0". So Mac OS Leopard (or Tiger, Jaguar, Puma, etc) actually does make much more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 I often pronounce the X in OS X as in "X". I rarely pronounce it as "ten", you know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcticsheep Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Although it may sound cooler to you, its just too close to XP... which as we all know, is horrific oh wait, maybe thats vista... Steve Jobs says it as 10, most of Apple says it as 10, i say it as 10. Saying it as the Letter "X" is a ... Think Mark Lets make this into an OS Battle. XP & Vista are good operating systems. I'm sorry! I have had 0 problems with vista, no driver problems I couldn't fix with a google or any of that sort with windows. But everybody is entitled to their own opinion. By the way I pronounce it the way its written with an "EX". I know the real way is ten but I really don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
アルツロ Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 EX is cooler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogster Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I actually tend to say "O-S-SEX" because the S and the X blend in together as I pronounce it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meowpard Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Oh, Essex! Are you a student? to become widely accepted I pronounce OS 'X' like in 'axe' Sword, shield and OS axe. Beat this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorg Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I say Mac OS eX. Apple and Steve Jobs want you to pronounce it as "ten", meaning that it is the successor to OS9. Of course that's ridiculous. Back in the 90s OS9 was dying. OSX was a totally different beast that ultimately saved Apple (along with iPod). Regardless, "X" not only marks the spot or implies Sex, it also means Unix, which always has been a larger-than-life thing in computer literature. Unix had also met tremendous popularity back then in the 90s, thanks to Linux. Just as JSomething corresponds to Java, X is synonymous to Unix. Apple's remarkable transition from old-dog OS Classic to OSX was all about Unix. Apple themselves acknowledged that and marketed it as such. Nowdays, they might want to distinguish themselves from that but it is what it is. That's why you get OSX 10.3, OSX 10.5, OSX 10.6 etc even though you should get by now something like OS XI. You don't really want to have an OS called OS "eleven", do you ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threepwood Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I like to call it 'oh ess ex' to seperate it slightly from the traditional Mac world. To me it's not the successor of OS 9 but something new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrongWind Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I say always X like letter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin15s Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 does it matter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlocke2342 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I say "OS DIX", which in french means "OS 10". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAppleFreak Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I say O-S-Ex, only because of habit. I know that it is actually Roman numeral 10, but because it's the first thing I heard, and because it sounds cooler, I say Ex. However, Apple itself seems to also be in a similar debate, as in the Genius Bar (I had to go their once because of a defective Time Capsule) they refer to it as Ex, and on some of their video tutorials, they refer to it as Ex, but Steve Jobs refers to it as 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwnx1337 Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 wow never even knew the 'X' stood for '10' I always called pronounced it 'ex' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac_Dude Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 called it X , also didnt knew that X = 10. If someone asked Me for version , I called it OSX 10.5 or just Leopard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyDawg Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 called it X , also didnt knew that X = 10.If someone asked Me for version , I called it OSX 10.5 or just Leopard I've always said OS X since I come from the Windows side. Now that I know the X represents the 10th version of their OS it clears things up but I don't see the versions listed as OS X.7. From a marketing standpoint, the X symbol makes it look "cooler." That's why you see all these ATI Radeon X... cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalpa Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 yeah i say os ex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylamrin Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I know the correct way to say it is "Ten" , even then, I say it as "X" ... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cain. Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Know it's called ten, call it X. My Mac still works, so it doesn't seem to be offended. Making an issue out of it is just smartassing anyways, IMO... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oczo Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 $ say Welcome to Mac OS X There's your answer. It is pronounced ten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B292 Tom Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I used to say OS "X" but then after I got a Mac for myself I somehow started saying OS "10" I now find it odd when other people refer to it as OS "X" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timdphotos Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 definately say the letter X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanpave Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Wow, more than two thirds say "ex"... It is Mac Operating System (version) 10, though. Maybe they shouldn't have used Roman numerals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eemerkacken Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 I originally thought it´s name really were OS "ex", because i only read about on the inet, and i´m am PC-Guy. Later when joining this forum and making my first hackintoshing attempts, i found out about the x being a roman letter standing for 10, still saying eX, got used to it. And i´m not willing to give up habits in order to be correct when it´s about the name for a OS and apple, imho, doesn´t care either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn0le Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 I say OS 10. It took me a while to get used to it. But how about OSx86 then? Should we say "OS ten eightysix"? That would kinda ruin the play on x86 architecture ans OS X. Same with "OSx86 Tools". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-user Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 i like [æks] more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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