Troubleshooting Apple Computers & the Macintosh Operating System

On January 24, 1984, Apple announced the Macintosh to the world. This computer was a radical departure from both Lisa, Apple's first attempt to introduce a computer with a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and the family of MS-DOS computers currently in the market. The GUI implemented within the Macintosh Operating System was developed from Lisa's, which was developed from Xerox's GUI in return for Apple stock.

All Macintoshes since then had been descendants of the original Macintosh. Though processing power and hardware capacities have been exponentially increasing, the core idea and the look-and-feel of OS have been same until the recent update Mac OS X. Another radical change was the switch of CPU from Motorola 80XXX to PowerPC in the late 1990s and finally to Intel CPUs in the mid-2000s, a process streamlined by OS X's CPU-agnostic architecture.

Apple develops both their hardware and software, which allows the computers to work seamlessly and more stable since there is less need to account for other developers' interaction with their systems. With this said, there are still numerous errors and incompatibilities that can still arise when using there systems. This workshop will teach you some of the basic techniques required to troubleshoot and resolve these problems.

Before you begin to troubleshoot your computer, you should be fairly familiar with how to use it. If you need to, read the curriculum on using Apple OSX.