The Mac saw a new (free!) operating system this year alongside all kinds of great other apps. Let's take a look back at our biggest and best Mac posts of the last year. The Always Up-to-Date Guide to ...

For the last several years, Apple has maintained a comprehensive (if not exhaustive) list of available Mac OS X software on its website. This has been a great resource for those who aren't familiar ...

As was mentioned earlier today during Apple’s special event, Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite is now available as a free upgrade for users running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks. To get the update, ...

Apple has revealed to developers that it will be shutting down its Downloads page for Mac OS X on Jan. 6, the day of the Mac App Store launch, as it focuses on the Mac App Store as "the best ...

Do you remember Apple’s OS X Downloads page? That page used to be a resource for many of the best apps and widgets on the Mac. We say “used to” because the OS X Downloads page has actually been shut ...

Until recently if you wanted to upgrade (or downgrade) old Mac to Mac OS X Lion (from 2011) or Mountain Lion (from 2012) you needed to pay Apple and the company would send you a special download code ...

Yosemite changes the look and feel of your Mac, from ever-so-transparent windows to a completely new Spotlight interface. But what hasn’t changed is how you get it—following in the footsteps of ...

Since its release in 2009, it's been a continuing fallacy for pundits to hold up Mac OS X Snow Leopard as the perfect example ...

Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years. He is the senior editor in charge of iOS software and has become an expert reviewer of the software that runs on each new Apple device. He now spends ...

Apple has spent the last decade building and improving Mac OS X, fusing the classic Mac OS and technology acquired from Steve Jobs’s Next into an impressive mainstream operating system that’s widely ...

On May 26th, Apple released Mac OS X 10.3.4 Update and Mac OS X Server 10.3.4 Update via the Web and Software Update. ("Combined" updaters are also available for both OS X and OS X Server.) Mac OS X ...

OS X changed the game for Apple. Image: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac OS X, the most important piece of software in Apple history, turns 20 today. Going on sale in its full, public version on March 24, ...