Mac OS X 25th Anniversary: The OS That Saved Apple

johng

I had used OS 9 and older versions at school but never owned one and had no interest in owning a mac. Eventually I started hearing about OS X online and that it was UNIX based and became very interested. At the time my primary desktop was a PC with Windows, and my secondary was a PC running Linux. My friend needed money and sold me his G4 Mac Tower and I wiped it and reinstalled OS X as my "third" machine on the desk. Within a week, it had moved to be the 2nd machine and then a week after that it moved to be my primary machine. I've been using Mac's as my primary machine ever since then and keeping a PC only for gaming. Now Linux is getting good enough that it can run pretty much any game except for games that require kernel level anti-cheat, secure boot, etc... OS X was truly beautiful. I still look at it and think it looks great... if it looked like that today I'd be fine with it. Great memories learning how to use it, and being amazed that to install an app all I had to do was drag it to the Applications folder. What magic compared to every other OS at the time.