Apple has released Mac OS X Lion in the Mac App Store for $30. Separately, Apple will also begin offering Lion on a USB thumb drive in Apple stores come August. Right now, you can grab Lion from the ...

In this article, we’ll run through the steps necessary to create a bootable installer of the Mac operating system, whether it’s so you can install the latest version of the macOS on multiple Macs, ...

It was 2009 when Apple last released a new operating system on physical media. Things have proceeded remarkably smoothly since version 10.7 switched to download-only installers, but there are still ...

Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now ...

Apple has finally released its new operating system for Macs, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which is a free download to all Mac users. El Capitan offers many subtle refinements to the Mac experience, such as ...

Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store ...

OS X 10.8 is only available online, but you can create your own standalone install drive for it if needed. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Sure, Apple OS X Lion (read our OS X Lion Review) is a frisky little feline now, but what happens in a year or two when your permissions are as tangled as a ball of string and your computer's lost the ...

Last week, we noted that the Mac OS X 10.1 Update CD cannot be used to reinstall Mac OS X 10.1 after you have installed Mac OS X 10.1.1. If you try, when the Installer gets to the point where you ...