This is not to be confused with 'booting into Mac OS 9.' Mac OS 9 booting supports all Mac OS 9 compatible applications and drivers, where Classic does not. That's an entirely different beast.Ĭlassic is an environment within Mac OS X on PowerPC (PPC) Macs running 10.4.11 and earlier that allows most Mac OS 9 applications to run. We are not referring to Mac OS X 10.9, which came out in 2013. When we refer to Mac OS 9 below, we are referring to the operating system that was last prebundled on Macs in early 2006 (on PowerPC G5 and G4 Macs only), and was last bootable on 2003 Macs. To make it more current, the following information has been updated. Older software on newer machines is a frequent question on this board, which has been covered in the User Tips section before.
See also the timeline at the end of the tip. Mac Mini G4 was replaced by Mac Mini IntelĮMac was replaced by iMac Intel Educational In 2006, Apple migrated all their desktop and notebook computers from the Apple/IBM/Motorola CPUs known as PowerPC (PPC) to Intel CPUs.
