As you can see, I have collected them all here. While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K and 6K displays. If you want to see detailed screenshots of every release of OS X, click here. If you are looking for Mac OS 9 wallpapers, this page is for you. Rogue Amoeba is proud to sponsor the 512 Pixels Wallpaper and Screenshot Library. We’ve been making high-quality native MacOS audio software since this was cutting edge, way back in 2002. If you need to do anything with audio on your Mac, Rogue Amoeba can help. Visit our site to check out all our great audio utilities.

The first two releases of Mac OS X shared the same wallpaper. The sweeping blue arcs and curves helped set the tone of the new Aqua interface. Jaguar took the same Aqua-inspired theme but added some depth and motion to things.

In my head, the trails streaking across the screen were from a set of comets. While Panther inflicted Macs everywhere with Brushed Metal, its wallpaper stayed on brand, refreshing the original 10.0 image. Many consider Tiger to be the best “classic” version of Mac OS X.

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