I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 377. Here are my solutions to them.
1: Alpine water with excessive transparency rounded the corners.
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macOS Tahoe
Alpine water (Lake Tahoe) with excessive transparency (its Liquid Glass was too transparent in parts) rounded the corners (its rounded corners are inconsistent).
2: The last of the 32 is the low point, but converted Fusion Drives.
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macOS Mojave
The last of the 32 (it was the last version to support 32-bit code) is the low point (the Mojave Desert includes Badwater Basin, 282 feet below sea level, the lowest point in North America), but converted Fusion Drives (they couldn’t be converted to APFS by High Sierra, and had to wait for Mojave).
3: The last to AIM, delayed by the phone, but couldn’t change its spots.
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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
The last to AIM (last version to support PowerPC processors produced by the AIM alliance of Apple, IBM and Motorola), delayed by the phone (intended to be released by Spring 2007, it was delayed until October because of the iPhone released in June), but couldn’t change its spots (the saying ‘a leopard can’t change its spots’).
The common factor
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They were the last versions to support PowerPC (Leopard), 32-bit Intel apps (Mojave), and Intel processors (Tahoe).
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
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