Upgrading Every Version of macOS

Upgrading from Mac OS 9 to macOS Sonoma, through every version of Mac OS X / OS X / macOS in between.

Five Apple Laptops are used. All 23 years of operating systems are run on supported hardware.

00:00:00 - Mac OS 9
00:02:30 - Mac OS X v10.0 (Cheetah)
00:07:54 - Mac OS X v10.1 (Puma)
00:10:35 - Mac OS X Jaguar (v10.2)
00:14:52 - Mac OS X Panther (v10.3)
00:15:09 - Mac Upgrade 1
00:20:13 - Mac OS X Tiger (v10.4)
00:24:49 - Mac OS X Leopard (v10.5)
00:28:26 - Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6)
00:29:38 - Mac Upgrade 2
00:33:27 - OS X Lion (v10.7)
00:35:17 - OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8)
00:36:30 - OS X Mavericks (v10.9)
00:38:36 - OS X Yosemite (v10.10)
00:40:06 - OS X El Capitan (v10.11)
00:42:09 - Mac Upgrade 3
00:42:21 - macOS Sierra (v10.12)
00:44:11 - macOS High Sierra (v10.13)
00:45:23 - macOS Mojave (v10.14)
00:46:27 - macOS Catalina (v10.15)
00:47:35 - macOS Big Sur (v11)
00:49:55 - macOS Monterey (v12)
00:51:55 - Mac Upgrade 4
00:52:18 - macOS Ventura (v13)
00:55:23 - macOS Sonoma (v14)

[RossDarker]

“macOS (previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.”

[ACP]

bro is flexing his macs Edit: i have started a war on the replies lol

[Freshbott]

Aqua was peak digital design, nothing can convince me otherwise.

[duplicake]

This person's bank account when the computers become vintage 📈📈

[mattydsmith]

All those startup / welcome videos and their various songs bring back some memories. I used to work at an agency during this period and we deployed upwards of 1, 000 macs. For a long time it wasn't possible/easy to image them, so we'd have banks of them setup with install discs and then these songs going off seconds apart as someone clicked Accept on the first, then second, then third, etc etc etc. 10.5 was easily the worst one of them all.

Thanks for the 00's memories Ross

[valjo]

very high effort video. really appreciated it ! loved the change of fonts depending on the period

[josephgandini]

What is striking to me is how modern the TiBook STILL looks. If it was a bit thinner and lighter and had a webcam, it would fit right in with the Macs of today. One could argue that design-wise that that (lighter, thinner TiBook with modern ports/processor/camera) is essentially the MacBook Pro today.

[spectralflapjack]

Say what you will about Apple's business practices and their decline these days, but man, back in the day they really knew how to make products beautiful, software included.

[notbugberry]

nice, but what about EVERY version of macOS? System 1 through macOS 14? it's gonna be fun.

[williambarrett]

Incredible Ross, you don't see videos like this often enough.

[theamarothman]

I enjoyed this video very much. Every-single-seconds... Thank you for your effort.

[J_J]

This video is so satisfying
From Russia with love 🇷🇺🤝🇬🇧

[youtuberconsuming]

this isn’t possible anymore on Mx series macs as Apple won’t cryptographically sign the outdated installers. in fact without internet you can’t restore Mx series macs at all.

[TakMinYang]

Looking forward to your video in 10 years later ;_)

[hugo_velaryon]

I really like all versions of 10.0, then 11 came and I found it all a bit boring

[half-qilin]

Idk why this is I’m my recommended feed but it’s cool. Also great to see someone else owns an iBook G3 in 2023

[cirkulx]

36:29 still waiting for OS X Sea Lion installation

[narutosingh]

Aqua and 3D dock were best. Things went downhill since Yosemite 😢

[rinsuki]

Thanks for making a really awesome video!

By the way, have you considered to upgrade to macOS 14 from 9 in minimal steps instead of each version?

[atptourfan]

THIS is the content I need on YouTube!