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macOS Sonoma supports Macs with Apple silicon and Intel's Xeon-W and 8th-generation Coffee Lake/Amber Lake chips or later, [25] and drops support for various models released in 2017, officially marking the end of support for Macs without Retina display and the 12-inch MacBook. The 2019 iMac is the only Sonoma-supported Intel Mac that lacks a T2 ...
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 ...
macOS Sequoia (version 15) is the twenty-first and current major release of Apple's macOS operating system, the successor to macOS Sonoma. It was announced at WWDC 2024 on June 10, 2024. [ 4 ] In line with Apple's practice of naming macOS releases after landmarks in California , it is named after Sequoia National Park , located in the Sierra ...
System 7 (became Mac OS after version 7.6, discontinued in 1997) [146] Mac OS 8 (discontinued in 1999) [10] Mac OS 9 (discontinued in 2001) [147] [148] Lisa OS – An operating system based on Apple SOS developed 3 years prior. [149] It was discontinued in 1986 alongside the Lisa line of computers, [150] with System Software being partially ...
In Mac OS 9 and early versions of Mac OS X, Software Update was a standalone tool. The program was part of the CoreServices in OS X. It could automatically inform users of new updates (with new features and bug and security fixes) to the operating system, applications, device drivers, and firmware. All updates required the user to enter their ...
macOS Ventura (version 13) is the nineteenth major release of macOS, Apple's operating system for Macintosh computers. The successor to macOS Monterey, it was announced at WWDC 2022 on June 6, 2022, and launched on October 24, 2022. [3] macOS Ventura was succeeded by macOS Sonoma, which was released on September 26, 2023.
Mac OS X v10.2.8 7.0 October 24, 2003 Mac OS X Panther: Mac OS X v10.3.0 BSD layer synchronized with FreeBSD 5; Automatic file defragmentation, hot-file clustering and optional case sensitivity in HFS+; Bash instead of tcsh as default shell; Read-only NTFS support (Darwin 7.9) [29] 7.9 April 15, 2005 Mac OS X v10.3.9 8.0 April 29, 2005
XNU ("X is Not Unix") is the computer operating system (OS) kernel developed at Apple Inc. since December 1996 for use in the Mac OS X (now macOS) operating system and released as free and open-source software as part of the Darwin OS, which, in addition to being the basis for macOS, is also the basis for Apple TV Software, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS.