If you haven’t gotten around to updating your iPhone or Mac to OS 27, Apple hasn’t forgotten about you. Alongside iOS 27.0.1 ...

In the mid–1990s, Apple worked on an operating system called Copland, which was announced but never commercially released ...

I’m still in the very early stages of poking at macOS 15 Sequoia ahead of our customary review later this fall, and there are quite a few things that aren’t working in this first developer beta. Some ...

The Basilisk II emulator can be used to run old versions of Mac OS 8 and System 7 on a modern Mac. Here's how to get started using it. Before macOS and OS X, there was Mac OS 9, and before that were ...

The fortunes of the Mac platform drastically changed 10 years ago, with the release of a simple CD. On Sept. 13, 2000, Apple released its Mac OS X Public Beta, a limited-time trial run of the ...

October 25, 2003: Mac OS X Panther arrives on Macintosh computers, bringing several useful new features and making Safari Apple’s default web browser for the first time. The new Exposé feature in OS X ...

If you’re the type of Mac user who likes to keep track of your system performance and system resource usage and management, ...

About nine months ago, I acquired a 13-inch MacBook Air. At that point, the first Ultrabooks had been announced but were not yet shipping. Even so, I might have waited, except that the Ultrabooks I’d ...

OS X may be retired, but it deserves to be remembered. Take a trip back with these 14 key milestones in the double-decade history of the operating system that helped transform a nearly bankrupt Apple ...

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