On the 20th anniversary of macOS, longtime PCMag contributor Edward Mendelson rhapsodizes about just what makes Apple's software so unique. Furthermore, it seems to have been getting everything right ...

If you are working on a computer that bears the Apple logo, you are natively running an operating system called macOS, short for Mac operating system. First introduced back in 1984 for the legendary ...

If you asked me to tell you all the most exciting things that happened to the Mac in the last two years, I'd start with hardware, not software. The transition from Intel’s chips to Apple silicon has ...

I don't understand how it works or what exactly PDF actually IS. All I know is that it is basically an image format. Why does OS X use it and how does it use it?<BR><BR>they say "Quartz enables on-the ...

Apple has announced what we can expect when it updates its three major operating systems later this year – macOS Big Sur, iPadOS 14 and iOS 14. While these software platforms serve Macs, iPads and ...

On Monday September 15, 2025 Apple will release a brand new operating system for the Mac. macOS Tahoe is the follow up to macOS Sequoia and it brings lots of new features, some new apps, and a brand ...

The year 2025 is shaping up to be a special one for the Apple ecosystem adherents, especially from a software perspective. So far, the chatter around the big yearly software upgrades has been focused ...

MacOS Sonoma is about to be unleashed and you're probably curious as to what it entails. Although this release isn't quite as profound and game-changing as previous releases, it does offer a number of ...

You can see if you're running the latest macOS version by clicking the Apple logo in the top-left corner, then selecting ...

Display scaling makes the size of your Mac's interface more comfortable on non-Retina monitors but incurs some visual and performance penalties. We explain these effects and how much they matter. In a ...