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Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

improved performance, greater efficiency and the reduction of its overall memory footprint. Much of the software in Mac OS X was extensively rewritten for this release in order to take advantage fully of modern macintosh hardware. This is also the first Mac OS release since system 7.1.1 that does not support macs using PowerPC processors, as apple now intends to focus on its current line of Intel-based products. As support for rosetta was dropped in OS X Lion, snow leopard is the last version of Mac OS X that is able to run PowerPC-only applications.

11 macOS Big Sur

November 2020

MacBook (Early 2015 or newer), MacBook Air (Mid 2013 or newer), MacBook Pro (Late 2013 or newer), Mac mini (Late 2014 or newer), iMac (Mid 2014 or newer), iMac Pro (2017), Mac Pro (Late 2013 or newer), 4 GB of memory, 35.5 - 44.5 GB of available storage, and OS X Mavericks 10.9 or later

Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)

introduced lots of new features such as new window management exposé, improved finder, enhanced version of preview, faxing, faster mail, and font book; a font management tool. Also, the idisk access and synchronization was significantly improved. Xcode was a new development tool for Mac OS X applications. It improved the speed of compiling applications significantly.

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

was the longest running version of the Mac OS X operating system. Some of the new features include a fast searching system called spotlight, a new version of the safari web browser, dashboard, a new ‘unified’ theme, and improved support for 64-bit addressing on power mac G5s. 10.4 was also the first version of any released Apple operating system to work on apple-Intel architecture machines. Apple claimed that tiger was the most successful apple OS release in the company’s history.

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

introduced a significantly revised desktop, with a redesigned dock, stacks, a semitransparent menu bar, and an updated finder that incorporates the cover flow visual navigation interface first seen in itunes. Other notable features include support for writing 64-bit graphical user interface applications, an automated backup utility called time machine, support for spotlight searches across multiple machines, and the inclusion of front row and photo booth, which were previously only included with some mac models.

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Mac OS X Public Beta

was the first public look at the client version of apple's long-awaited next generation operating system. It was still very buggy. However, it demonstrated the strength of apple's new system software like the new aqua interface or the quartz drawing engine.

Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah)

was still very slow (much slower than Mac OS 9) and lacked some important features such as data CD burning or DVD video playback. Especially window resizing was extremely slow. The lack of available software was the main problem.

Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma)

was the first OS X release which could actually be used. Application launch time, window resizing and menus were significantly faster, the dock was moveable, more customizable interface, enhanced 3D graphics performance, hundreds of drivers for third-party printers, cameras, camcorders, MP3 players and storage devices and additional network integration just to name a few of the new or improved features.

Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)

improved the performance by featuring quartz extreme, a new version of quartz that took advantage of the graphics accelerator cards on the modern Macs. The mail application now had a built-in spam mail filter, which was considered to be one of the best available. New applications were also introduced such as ichat, quicktime 6 and sherlock 3. Apple also added bluetooth support and introduced rendezvous. Another feature that was included on the demand of the users were the spring-loading folders which were available under Mac OS 9, but were missing in the first two releases of Mac OS X.

12 macOS Monterey

October 2021

MacBook (Early 2016 or newer), MacBook Air (Early 2015 or newer), MacBook Pro (Early 2015 or newer), Mac mini (Late 2014 or newer), iMac (Late 2015 or newer), iMac Pro (2017), Mac Pro (Late 2013 or newer), 26 - 44 GB of available storage, and OS X Mavericks 10.9 or later

14 macOS Sonoma

September 2023

MacBook Air (2018 or newer), MacBook Pro (2018 or newer), Mac mini (2018 or newer), iMac (2019 or newer), iMac Pro (2017), Mac Pro (2019 or newer), Mac Studio (2022 or newer)