Many consider Tiger to be the best “classic” version of Mac OS X. While Panther inflicted Macs everywhere with Brushed Metal, its wallpaper stayed on brand, refreshing the original 10.0 image. In my head, the trails streaking across the screen were from a set of comets. Jaguar took the same Aqua-inspired theme but added some depth and motion to things.
The sweeping blue arcs and curves helped set the tone of the new Aqua interface. The first two releases of Mac OS X shared the same wallpaper.
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While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K and 6K displays. As you can see, I have collected them all here. Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper.
