The situation: I'm helping upgrade a department from a mixture of OS 9 & OS X that's been installed over the years and not horribly well maintained to a smooth setup of OS X boxes (except for the old ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion (OS X 10.7). We also have a complete guide to installing and upgrading to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).] ...

In last month's column, I described the hurdles that Mac OS X puts in your way when you try to create a bootable disc, especially a custom bootable CD, DVD or flash drive. I offered various solutions ...

So I'm not sure if anyone's ended up in the same spot as we did after ordering our Vista "media" from Microsoft. We recived 4 non-bootable upgrade CD's that did little for us. For the record I'm not ...

I harbor no nostalgia for Mac OS 9. Aside from a couple of old games, I never even think about using OS 9 anymore. With one exception...I long for OS 9's simplicity in creating bootable drives and ...