Apple Product (legacy)

Apple Product 

                                                             
                                               iMAC G3

                                               iMAC G4

                                          
                                                iMAC G5

                                              PowerPC

OSX Legacy

Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger

Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger is the fifth major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Tiger was released to the public on 29 April 2005 for US$129.95 as the successor to Mac OS X Panther (version 10.3), which had been released 18 months earlier. Tiger was succeeded by Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard on 26 October 2007, after 30 months, making Tiger the longest running version of Mac OS X. Some of the new features include a fast searching system called Spotlight, a new version of the Safari web browser, Dashboard, a new 'Unified' theme, and improved support for 64-bit addressing on Power Mac G5s.

Tiger was included with all new Macintosh computers, and was also available as an upgrade for existing Mac OS X users, or users of supported pre-Mac OS X systems. The server edition, Mac OS X Server 10.4, was also available for some Macintosh product lines. Tiger is also the first version of any released Apple operating system to work on Apple–Intel architecture machines (Apple machines using x86 processors). The Apple TV, as released in March 2007, ships with a customized version of Mac OS X Tiger branded "Apple TV OS" that replaces the usual graphical user interface with an updated version of Front Row.

The system requirements of the PowerPC edition are:

• A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor running at 300 MHz or faster
• Built-in FireWire
• At least 256 MB of RAM, 128 MB can run it unofficially though (512 MB or 1 GB recommended)
• At least 3 GB of available hard disk space; 4 GB of disk space including the Xcode 2 Tools, 2 GB for the minimal install
• DVD-ROM drive (CD-ROM exchange was available; offer ended on March 20, 2007)

There are two type OSX Tiger : 1. Tiger for intel 2. Tiger for PowerPC

Please note that there a big different between Tiger(intel) and Tiger(PowerPC).

You cannot use same application that intel use on powerpc.

There are two type G5

Operating System (Macintosh)

OSX or Operating System For iMac, iBook and Macbook

OSX is a operating system for Macintosh computers, such as Windows.

OS X or Mac OS X, is a series of Unix-based graphical interface operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. It is designed to run exclusively on Mac computers, having been pre-loaded on all Macs since 2002. It was the successor to Mac OS 9, released in 1999, the final release of the "classic" Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984. The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop version, Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah" followed on March 24, 2001. Releases of OS X are named after big cats: for example, OS X v10.8 is referred to as "Mountain Lion".

OS X is the tenth major version of Apple's operating system for Macintosh computers.

OS X's core is a POSIX compliant operating system (OS) built on top of the XNU kernel, with standard Unix facilities available from thecommand line interface. Apple has released this family of software as a free and open source operating system named Darwin. On top of Darwin, Apple layered a number of components, including the Aqua interface and the Finder, to complete the GUI-based operating system which is OS X.

OS X introduced a number of new capabilities to provide a more stable and reliable platform than its predecessor, Mac OS 9. For example, pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection improved the system's ability to run multiple applications simultaneously without them interrupting or corrupting each other. Many aspects of OS X's architecture are derived from OPENSTEP, which was designed to be portable, to ease the transition from one platform to another. For example, NeXTSTEP was ported from the original 68k-based NeXT workstations to x86 and other architectures before NeXT was purchased by Apple, and OPENSTEP was later ported to the PowerPC architecture as part of the Rhapsody project.

OS Windows use *.exe and OSX use *.dmg,*.pkg and *.mpkg

List of OSX :

Mac OS X Version Information

Version	Codename	Date Announced	Release Date	Most Recent Version
Rhapsody Developer Release	Grail1Z4 / Titan1U		August 31, 1997	DR2 (May 14, 1998)
Mac OS X Server 1.0	Hera		March 16, 1999	1.2v3 (October 27, 2000)
Mac OS X Developer Preview			March 16, 1999	DP4 (April 5, 2000)
Public Beta	Kodiak		September 13, 2000
Mac OS X 10.0	Cheetah		March 24, 2001	10.0.4 (June 22, 2001)
Mac OS X 10.1	Puma	July 18, 2001	September 25, 2001	10.1.5 (June 6, 2002)
Mac OS X 10.2	Jaguar	May 6, 2002	August 24, 2002	10.2.8 (October 3, 2003)
Mac OS X 10.3	Panther	June 23, 2003	October 24, 2003	10.3.9 (April 15, 2005)
Mac OS X 10.4	Tiger	May 4, 2004	April 29, 2005	10.4.11 (November 14, 2007)
Mac OS X 10.5	Leopard	June 26, 2006	October 26, 2007	10.5.8 (August 5, 2009)
Mac OS X 10.6	Snow Leopard	June 9, 2008	August 28, 2009	10.6.8 v1.1 (July 25, 2011)
Mac OS X 10.7	Lion	October 20, 2010	July 20, 2011	10.7.5 (September 19, 2012)
OS X 10.8	Mountain Lion	February 16, 2012	July 25, 2012	10.8.2 (September 19, 2012)

Source : Wikipedia