Mac OS X Tiger – 10

Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma)

Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)

Mac OS X Puma (10.1) is a version of Mac OS X that was released on 25 September 2001. It was more successful than its predecessor, because of the inclusion of features that existed on Mac OS 9 but not on Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah), and it fixed several stability issues; though it was still met with a mixed reception. Most builds of Puma were compiled for PPC (for public use) and x86 (for testing purposes for the upcoming partnership with Intel, which would continue until the announcement in 2005).

Jaguar was the first version of OS X to support Safari and the last the ship with Internet Explorer as its default browser. Apple’s release of it Safari web browser was Microsoft’s excuse to leave the Mac browser market.

Jaguar improved performance across the board, especially for Classic Mode, and introduced Quartz Extreme, which lets the operating system offload graphics tasks to supported video cards (ATI Radeon and Nvidia GeForce 2 AGP and later video with at least 16 MB of VRAM). Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar was released on 2002.08.24 and was last updated on 2003.10.03, when the 10.2.8 update was released. There were rumors that 10.2.9 would be released in mid-2009 to address several bugs and vulnerabilities that remained in version 10.2.8, but that never happened.