Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar is an operating system that was designed, developed, and sold by Apple from 2002 to 2003 alongside Apple’s personal computers. The system has been released on August 23, 2002, and was available for $129 or was preinstalled on currently sold computers.
For the first time, Mac OS X was also available in the family pack for $199. This software gets the last update (10.2.8) on October 3, 2003, and later has been replaced by a newer version of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar introduced many features and improvements like MPEG-4 support in QuickTime, Address Book, and Inkwell for handwriting recognition, a new version of Quartz Extreme for graphic acceleration, built-in spam filter in Mail application, new apps like iChat, QuickTime 6, or Sherlock 3, Bluetooth support, and many more.
Today Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar is 20 years old!
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar General Information
| Released | August 23, 2002 |
| Original Price | $129 for a Single User $199 for Many Users (Family Pack) |
| System Requirements | PowerPC G3 processor (Unfortunately Original PowerBook G3 is not supported) 128 MB RAM 3 GB of hard disk space |
| Distribution | CD-ROM DVD-ROM |
| Order Number | M8712LL/A |
Versions
| Versions | Build | Release Date |
| Mac OS X 10.2 | 6C115 6C115a | August 24, 2002 |
| Mac OS X 10.2.1 | 6D52 | September 18, 2002 |
| Mac OS X 10.2.2 | 6F21 | November 11, 2002 |
| Mac OS X 10.2.3 | 6G30 | December 19, 2002 |
| Mac OS X 10.2.4 | 6I32 | February 13, 2003 |
| Mac OS X 10.2.5 | 6L29 | April 10, 2003 |
| Mac OS X 10.2.6 | 6L60 | May 6, 2003 |
| Mac OS X 10.2.8 | 6R50 6R73 | October 3, 2003 |
| Mac OS X 10.2.8 (PowerPC G5) | 6S90 | October 3, 2003 |
