[cypocraphy]

Agreed. It’s an odd thing to say, but I’ve been using Macs since the early days, and something about SL felt like OS X had finally arrived—like the platform had reached the point where Apple wanted it to be.

Not that the earlier versions were notably bad or anything, but something about them still felt new and experimental. I remember thinking Snow Leopard was the point at which X graduated to “the new normal”, for lack of a better way of putting it.