All good advice, and I would add one more that I have recently caught myself guilty of:

It's not coming out until this fall??? But I want iBooks on my desktop nowwwwwwww, wwwwhiiiinnnne!

Whew - my 07 "Aloomineum" iMac lives to fight another year or two. I'm guessing this will be the last iteration of OS X where the old C2D processors are supported.

you also forgot the drive in

Version-ing is not mathematically. The common nomenclature is (major version).(minor version).revision, it is not decimal point

So are we not going to talk about the abandonment of the Big Cat Naming Convention? Not even in passing?

That's good news for my aging Mac Pro. But I will never, never, ever for any reason call it "Mavericks." I knew they'd run out of cats eventually, but seriously, WTH? Post-Palin, it's hardly a term that's endearing to their base. And why plural?

ML was actually one of the best releases I have seen. Have you seen some of the recent releases from other companies? SimCity?

I wonder why they didn't spell it MaveriX? :)

Any idea from these insiders on pricing, I believe mountain lion was $13.99 so I'm hoping the same!

At least SOMETHING I bought from Apple in January gets a new OS.

Whatever happened to all the Snowdens of yesteryear?

Leave 4 colored shapes alone long enough and soon you'll have 8 colored shapes. Spay and neuter, people!

Well, in that spirit, here's this. Cats with thumbs:

It's hard to tell, but I think they are little Apples, not dots.

[runs away and cries. Vows vengence upon your mother, your mother's mother, your dog, your mailman, your greengrocer. Sweet retribution shall be mine!]

lol, im into the design but yea that was a weird choice.

Because screw you, that's why.

Why do people think he's stupid to do that. Maybe he wanted to test the squeezability of cats or their spatial awareness. I've seen quite a few cats try to squeeze themselves into something they wouldn't fit through.