“This years WWDC should see an announcement regarding the next version of Mac OS X, but will you be able to run it?” Simon Royal writes for Low End Mac.
“OS X 10.10 is rumoured to be called Syrah, a type of red grape grown in specific regions, one of which is in California,” Royal writes. “However, even the numbering scheme is debated. Will they jump to 10.10, which seems the most obvious choice? … the numbering seemed to have fallen by the wayside in favour of the naming scheme, so perhaps they could drop numbering altogether. On a side note, with Mountain Lion, Apple silently dropped the Mac from Mac OS X, simply calling it OS X.”
OS X 10.10 could require an i5, 4GB DDR3 RAM and 512MB video RAM, which means these machines would be the minimum to support it:
• iMac, Late 2009
• Mac mini, Late 2012
• MacBook Air, Mid 2012
• MacBook Pro, Mid 2010
• 2009 Mac Pro
Read more in the full article here.
Or not.
Yeah. It’s supposed to be Place Names, not Grape Names. 😉
It is most likely a code name. You know, like BHA. 😉
thnks Zeke, for your levelheaded, very clear, precise, and to the point response, no matter how long-winded,,,,,, i agree
DO NOT LISTEN TO THE ARTICLES PUNDITS!!
DO NOT SELL YOUR COMPUTER BASED ON THIS REPORTING DRIVEL!!
THIS IS CLICK BAIT… DO NOT ALLOW YOUR EMOTIONS TO DRIVE YOUR SANITY JUST BECAUSE SOME SHILL IS PAID TO LEAD YOU ASTRAY!!
PLEASE… JUST BREATHE DEEP, IGNORE THE BLATHER, AND ENJOY YOUR MAC
I promise, if you can’t run the latest and greatest, it will still be far better than the alternative operating system, and i have a very old mini running mavericks that the pun-tits SAID not say would be upgradable. So THERE!!!
(nya-nya-n-nya-nya to those blabberheads who “know” what system is upgradable at this early stage, pants are on fire)
I would guess that 64 bit and 512VRAM would be the minimum? I don’t know, just guessing.
I think it’s to early to know configurations for an OS that’s not even mentioned yet. Many times the builds are to early so configurations can change in later versions.
I’m in! (Mac Pro 2009, MacBook Pro 2011)
Sorry, Mac Plus won’t be supported!
😉
I resemble that remark!
Think my MBP will update, but not the Mac Pro.
C’mon new Mac Minis!!
What about my 2cx it could do with an update.
i used to think that i needed an upgrade for my 7cut but see i am above the average
“could”
“rumoured”
“seems to”
“perhaps”
Boy, this article is brimming with facts. 😀
I like the way you think.
Kinda.
The article is nothing buy guess work and conjecture. The author cites DDR3 being a requirement because DDR2 is expensive. WTF??
My early 2011 MBP runs Snow Leopard just fine 🙂
My current iMac will be 7-years old in June. Mavericks is my last OS upgrade.
The name will not be Syrah, as it is not California enough, not nearly. Even Zinfandel would not do, as that species of grape has been traced back to Croatia.
Syrah is also a location — but in Iran (Shiraz). Not even close to Stinson Beach.
The origin of this rumour is easy to imagine: on the label of the bottle that was being drained whilst a bunch of tipsy technophiles sat around making stuff up for this article.
Yes Stinson Beach,,, nothing could be closer to my heart for a new OS name. I grew up in Mill Valley “over the hill” and was at Stinson Beach for the better part of my high school (actually the BEST part !-)
I won’t tell you doing what, but grades were not my bent at the time…..
As to sipping a bottle of syrah and making stuff up, I must say that Stinson Beach is a wonderful place to do so (from experience). So I hope they are at Stinson Beach coming up with a much better name than Syrah
How about Mt Tam, Birth Home of mountain biking? (had plenty of opportunities, since “the mountain” was between me and my other home, and only had a bike)
I learned to drill out my rims and hubs and put in motorcycle spokes in necessity of the “bad” fire roads and trails (now considered Holy)
Memories flood, sorry for the deluge
P.S.
I don’t care what they call it, can i run it? won’t sweat it till the truth comes out in the wash
Tamalpais would be a splendid name for the OS. Might be fun listening to pundits stumble over the pronunciation.
Way fun, yes, As it was to listen to me as i did on the beach, drinking syrah and imagining the botched pronunciation of that ancient indian woman’s name… by explorers, and ultimately by exploiters, who wanted to all but wipe out the natives.
We will never know how it was meant to be pronounced in their native tongue, but i have probably hit on it in a rambling moment after hours, and after…. syrah?
Rambling, intellectual speculation, emotional bonding: transcendental, life-altering encounters. At certain times, and at certain places, and in certain company, as you have so felicitously reminded me. 🙂
How about Puta Creek, or Hangtown?
Hangtown is now Placerville, hadn’t you heard?
But Hangtown is so much more colorful. 🙂
Dead Horse Gulch?
All real places, BTW.
We long for the nostalgia of our grandparents. We have none of our own. — Hunter S. Thompson
My favorite contemporary writer…
Hunter S. Thompson:
California, Labor Day weekend… early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levi’s roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur… The Menace is loose again, the Hell’s Angels, the hundred-carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in the saddle, nobody smiles, jamming crazy through traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe, missing by inches… like Genghis Khan on an iron horse, a monster steed with a fiery anus, flat out through the eye of a beer can and up your daughter’s leg with no quarter asked and none given; show the squares some class, give em a whiff of those kicks they’ll never know…
— Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
“Well,” I said. “All this white stuff on my sleeve is LSD.” He said nothing: Merely grabbed my arm and began sucking on it. A very gross tableau. I wondered what would happen if some Kingston Trio/young stockbroker type might wander in and catch us in the act. Fuck him, I thought. With a bit of luck, it’ll ruin his life – forever thinking that just behind some narrow door in all his favorite bars, men in red Pendleton shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.
— Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
HST ironically now provides his own stream of nostalgia for us.
I wouldn’t be upgrading from Snow Leopard if it weren’t for Logic X. I hope it all goes smoothly..
This is ridiculous! I just a bought my Mac mini i5 Radeon 6630 HD on mid 2012 and my Mac is only about 2 years old and it can’t run the new Mac OS X 10.10? And my mac still has AppleCare. Please let my Mac mini to be able to run the new OS. This is a recent machine and it shouldn’t be obsolete so fast!
Why do people react to articles like this as if they’re fact???
Get a grip man. It’s mere conjecture.
Pronounced “OS ten ten point ten”. Heh.
As for whether my Mac will run it, I’ve gotta assume so. It’s only a year old.
——RM
The “X” (most likely) will be silent.
in rememberance of the other other steve
Apple only drops OS support for devices when there’s some significant architectural requirement that isn’t supported by the older hardware and is not upgradeable, i.e. things such as CPU, GPU, etc.
Not a late 2008 Mac Pro? Has a pair of 2.8GHz Xeon quad core chips and an Nvidia GeForce 8800GT graphics card with 512MB of VRAM. That’s not enough???
Guess I’ll miss the cut. MacBook Pro Mid 2009
Not if it’s called Tenderloin.
What would cause it to require half a gig of vram?
To me that would suggest a great deal of multi-dimensional elements to the interface.
I’d like to see Apple marry the visual designs of iOS and OS X together, further simplify the user interface options (but not to worry, with a quick set of advanced features easily switched on in System Preferences) and to enable airdrop between iOS and OS X.
Basically, I want to see Apple bring the ecosystem together even tighter than before — but I also want to see features remain even if not by default. Call it “pro mode” or something.
So I’ll have to use a hack to get it to work on an Intel Core 2 duo? Thats nice to know.