What is Mac OS X?  Well, let's start off with the name, it's made of up the letter "O", the letter "S", and the Roman Numeral "X" and is called Mac O-S-Ten.

Mac OS X took the Mac OS to the next level.  As a more modern, stable, secure operating system it implements some of the following key features common to UNIX-based operating systems:

Mac OS X has been designed with three key isolation features: System Isolation, User Isolation, Memory and Application Isolation.  This guide is a brief overview of the article Key Isolation Features in Mac OS X at our main site and is specific to the Library Folders.

Mac OS X implements some key core technologies and frameworks that make graphics and multimedia stand out when compared to other operating systems.  These key technologies help to give Mac OS X its amazing graphics, images, and sound capabilities.

Leopard is Apple's latest version of the Mac OS X operating system.  Leopard has been designated a version number of 10.5.  Leopard is the 6th version that Apple has released since early 2001. Leopard contains more that 300 new features when compared to Tiger, the prior version of Mac OS X.

This guide will describe the process of upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard.  As Leopard has not been released yet, we've compiled this information based on our expectations and experience with previous upgrades of Mac OS X.  This guide will get you to start thinking about the steps involved a Mac OS X upgrade.  If this will be your first ever Mac OS X upgrade, you'll want to pay close attention.  We describe the process in a few high-level steps.  Before we get started, we'd like to point out that you will want to verify the system requirements as outlined by Apple.  If you have a recent Mac, you'll shouldn't have any problems upgrading to Leopard.