What is Mac OS X 10.0?
Mac OS X is Apple’s new operating system. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the “X” is pronounced “ten”, like the roman number, not “ex” like the letter. Don’t make me come over there. Mac OS X was released on March 24th, 2001, with a suggested retail price of $129 and a version number of 10.0. Don’t let the version number confuse you; this is the first official release of Apple’s new OS. It was preceded by many developer releases and one public beta release. To say that Mac OS X has been eagerly awaited by Mac users is an understatement. Apple has been trying to produce a successor to the classic Mac OS operating system for almost 15 years. It’s a tragicomic litany of code names: Pink, Taligent, Copland, Rhapsody. In the early days (the Pink project was launched in 1987), Mac users paid little attention to these efforts, confident that their current OS was the most advanced in the personal computer market. But as the years passed and competing operating systems evolved, both
