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Macintosh OS X
What is it?
A break away from the more traditional Macintosh Operating System, OS X is Unix-based adding flexibility to the Macintosh Operating system, some pretty new graphics and a bit of power too. Why is it called X? It is the tenth Macintosh Operating System released and rather than call it 10, they decided to use the Roman numeral and emphasize its difference from the older Macintosh OS.
Before you install
To install OS X your Mac must be at least a G3 or G4. (Even some earlier G3's will not work.) You must have OS 9 on your computer to install OS X.
How do I do it?
- Go to the Software Center and click on the Macintosh Download icon next to OS X.
- Double click on the installer. The installer will reboot your computer.
- The computer may ask you which drive you wish to install OS X. If you are installing 10.2, make sure you select the drive that has 10.1 on it.
- Let the installer run, it will give you a number of options depending on how your computer is set up, and then you will need to reboot your computer.
What is with all the multiple drives?
When OS X first came out in 2000 a lot of people set their computers to dual-boot, that is set up the computer so they could have both OS X and OS 9. If your computer is set up in this way you can switch between X and 9 easily. This helped a lot with programs written for OS 9 that would not work in OS X. Now that OS X is older, this is not as necessary and in January of 2003 all new OS X computers will not be set to dual boot.
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