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Mac OS X 10.1

2001 — 2001 · Apple Inc.
retired Reported · 2001

“One fast cat, gone ahead to the great keynote in the sky.”

Mac OS X 10.1, code named Puma, was the second major release of Apple's new desktop and server operating system, arriving on September 25, 2001 as a free update for 10.0 users. Apple employees handed it out for free after Steve Jobs' keynote at the Seybold publishing conference in San Francisco, before it reached Mac users at retail on October 25, 2001. The team named it Puma because they thought it was, in their wor

Puma's reign was brief, but its legacy was enormous: the 10.1.2 release became the moment Apple made Mac OS X the default operating system on all new Macs, finally retiring Mac OS 9 in January 2002. Then, as cats do, it moved on — superseded by Jaguar. It didn't so much die as pass the torch, gracefully.

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