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# From Lame to Lion
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2012/12/from-lame-to-lion/
- Published: 2012-12-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:52:35.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:47, #ichris

> Don't remember what OS X used to look like back when dinosaurs used to roam the planet and Apple's OS ran only on PowerPC processors? We've mined more than a decade of our own OS X reviews—studiously authored by John Siracusa—for screenshots and other OS X-related memories that trace the development of Apple's desktop OS through the 2000s.

I started into the Mac as Apple made the transition to OS X. I wasn't a Mac user at all - mocked them if anything - but OS X changed it for me. I didn't actually pick up a Mac until we bought an [eMac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac?ref=chrisenns.com) / ([photo](https://www.flickr.com/photos/lemon/1219983/?ref=chrisenns.com)) in 2003 which likely shipped with Jaguar v10.2.

[Jump in the time machine and take a look back at how far OS X has come](https://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/screenshot-tour-os-x-then-and-now/?ref=chrisenns.com).