It was 2009 when Apple last released a new operating system on physical media. Things have proceeded remarkably smoothly since version 10.7 switched to download-only installers, but there are still ...

A bootable Mac OS X thumb drive comes in handy when you need to troubleshoot OS issues for yourself, your family, or your friends. It’s also extremely useful for keeping your basic setup consistent ...

Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac Turn any USB Drive into a Yosemite installer! There are plenty of reasons why you might need to make an OS X bootable drive. Maybe you’re updating numerous Macs in your ...

Apple has released Mac OS X Lion in the Mac App Store for $30. Separately, Apple will also begin offering Lion on a USB thumb drive in Apple stores come August. Right now, you can grab Lion from the ...

Jesus Vigo reviews the process to create a mutliboot USB drive used to install multiple versions of OS X. In an ideal world, sysadmins everywhere would only need to manage one or two operating systems ...

Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now ...

Follow these steps to create a bootable USB installer drive for macOS High Sierra to deploy Apple’s latest OS on supported computers. On June 5, 2017, Apple announced macOS High Sierra at its annual ...

The latest version of Apple's popular operating system — Mac OS X 10.7 Lion — is now available for download through the Mac App Store for $29.99. And at around 4 GB, it is one very big file to ...

I think the reason we haven't heard many complaints about the doing away of physical media is exactly this. As long as power users can make their own offline media, there's nothing to complain about.