Happy birthday! Mac OS X turns 9

It was nine years ago today that Mac OS X 10.0 was born -- or became available to the general public anyway. On September 13, 2000 Apple released a public beta called "Kodiak" (think of this as OS X's conception). On March 24, 2001 Apple effectively ditched OS 9 for the current generation OS that would allow ultimate scalability for the coming decades. Since then, Mac OS X has had seven or eight major versions depending on who you ask. Jobs considered Mac OS X 10.4.4 major version since it was totally rewritten to run on Intel chips. Here's a list of the names and subsequent release dates for all the versions thus far.

10.0 Cheetah -- March 24, 2001
10.1 Puma -- September 25, 2001
10.2 Jaguar -- August 24, 2002
10.3 Panther -- October 24, 2003
10.4 Tiger -- April 29, 2005
10.4 Intel Tiger -- January 10, 2006
10.5 Leopard -- October 26, 2007
10.6 Snow Leopard -- August 28, 2009

Check out the gallery below for screen shots of each versions and also don't forget to send in your suggestions to help us tell Apple what you want to see in the next version of Mac OS X!

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Dafrety

I miss my iBook G3 with Panther... I absolutely did not like 10.0 or 10.1, so I stayed away and used OS 9. Finally I had to upgrade for whatever reason and couldn't believe how nice it was. Of course, that was while I was fighting with a terrible lemon of a computer, but the software was perfect.

March 24 2010 at 11:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steve

What I find extremely funny is that every version of OS X looks better than Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Yikes.

March 24 2010 at 2:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dafrety

I haven't really noticed. I was using my computer to be productive, not gawk at the pretty shiny.

March 24 2010 at 10:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Vcize

Can we get new MacBook announcments as a present?

March 24 2010 at 2:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John Stone

Wow the same anniversary as 1858, Hymen Lipman was granted a patent for attaching a piece of rubber to the end of a pencil.

Clearly everything is linked - err somehow

March 24 2010 at 1:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dsdevries

March 24 2010 at 1:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jason

If you remember MacOS X Public beta was actually released September 13, 2000 for $30...

March 24 2010 at 9:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jayson

By the way... 10.4.4 wasn't re-written to run on Intel machines. I believe Steve Jobs mentioned that they were secretly writing the PPC version and Intel version of Mac OS X side by side the entire time before that.

March 24 2010 at 9:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Greenie

Please don't tell me to think of an operating system conception. I have an incredible imagination and that was not awesome.

March 24 2010 at 8:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

trayser

It is also steve's birthday today.
(i.e. balmar, not jobs)

Not a fan of steve balmar to remember his birthday though. Just got the "On this day" iPhone app yesterday and checked today morning for the birthdays on this day. :-)

-satyakam

March 24 2010 at 8:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cello

RyanR yep I think you did.

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