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macOS (originally Mac OS X) Apple Inc. 2001 NeXTSTEP, BSD: 15.1 October 28, 2024 Bundled with hardware; No cost for updates and upgrades via Mac App Store for users of Mac OS X 10.6 or later Proprietary higher level API layers; open source core system (Apple Silicon-Intel-PowerPC versions): APSL, GNU GPL, others Workstation, personal computer ...
macOS Monterey is the final version of macOS that supports the 2015–2017 MacBook Air, Retina MacBook Pro, 2014 Mac Mini, 2015 iMac and cylindrical Mac Pro, as its successor, macOS Ventura, drops support for those models. It is the last version of macOS that can run on Macs with 4GB of RAM.
System 7.5.1 was the first to refer to itself as Mac OS; Mac OS 7.6 was the first to be branded as "Mac OS" Mac OS 8: 1997 Macintosh computers Mac OS 9: 1999 Mac OS X/OS X/macOS: Mac OS X Public Beta: September 13, 2000 May 14, 2001 Code name Kodiak; Mac OS X 10.0: September 13, 2000 March 24, 2001 Code name Cheetah; Mac OS X 10.1: September 25 ...
Mac OS X 10.0 was released on 24 March 2001 for a price of US$129. It was the successor of the Mac OS X Public Beta and the predecessor of Mac OS X 10.1 (code named Puma). Mac OS X 10.0 was a radical departure from the classic Mac OS and was Apple's long-awaited answer for a next generation Macintosh operating system.
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of widely used and currently available operating system kernels. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.
Mac OS X Leopard (v10.5) Linux 2.6.23 Ubuntu 7.10: OpenVMS 8.3-1H1 2007–11: Windows Home Server: OpenBSD 4.2: Fedora Linux 8 gOS: AIX 6.1, 2007–12: NetBSD 4.0: 2008–01: Linux 2.6.24: ReactOS 0.3.4 2008–02: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2008: DragonFly BSD 1.12 FreeBSD 7.0: 2008–03: IBM i 6.1 Singularity 1.1 2008–04 ...
The history of macOS, Apple's current Mac operating system formerly named Mac OS X until 2011 and then OS X until 2016, began with the company's project to replace its "classic" Mac OS. That system, up to and including its final release Mac OS 9 , was a direct descendant of the operating system Apple had used in its Mac computers since their ...
The system was launched as Mac OS X, renamed OS X from 2012—2016, [10] and then renamed macOS as the current Mac operating system that officially succeeded the classic Mac OS in 2001. The system was originally marketed as simply "version 10" of Mac OS, but it has a history that is largely independent of the classic Mac OS.