Mac OS 11 to be Named After Celebrities?

Within a recent blog post, Claudia McCue stat­ed the below in ref­er­ence to Apple’s pen­chant for nam­ing it’s Mac OS 10 oper­at­ing sys­tem releas­es after big cats:

On anoth­er note, I’m over the cute cat names. How about just using the ver­sion num­bers? Ten Point Six — what’s wrong with that? It’s def­i­nite, unam­bigu­ous, sol­id. Not fluffy. 

Or mem­o­rable monikers like “Galactica” or “Bonaventure”? Maybe famous com­posers: “Hey! I just loaded Mozart!”

I’d go for musi­cal com­posers, but I think Mac OS 11 releas­es would bet­ter be named after cur­rent celebri­ties. Think of it:

John Travolta just arrived!”

Just installed Sean Penn and now my USB cam­era is broken.”

Paris Hilton went down on me… Again! Fifth time today!”

Lindsay Lohan died. I’m not sur­prised. The damn thing’s been with­er­ing away for two years now. Maybe now I can final­ly get a real OS.”

Ever since rein­stalling Bob Dylan every­thing I print is unreadable.”

Is Kobe Bryant worth the money?”

Photoshop CS5 does­n’t work with Oprah.”

I’m going to skip upgrad­ing to this ver­sion. Kanye West is just too inva­sive and in your face–worse than Windows Vista!”

I’m excit­ed about the new Mac OS release. I can’t wait to get my hands on Kate Beckinsale!”

I upgrad­ed my Ashton Kutcher and, though Parallels runs it fine with Demi Moore, it con­flicts with my Bruce Willis partition.”

Finder won’t alpha­bet­ize my file list any more! It’s like it’s illit­er­ate. I knew I should­n’t have installed Tara Reid over Barbara Walters.”

Help! Everything on my screen is jump­ing since I installed Tom Cruise!”

Angelina Jolie comes bun­dled with too many child apps.”

I’m drool­ing, wish­ing I COULD upgrade to Beyonce, but my equip­ment is too old. I’m stuck bang­ing away on my old, virus-riddled Whitney Houston.”