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RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025 | Latest macOS 26 Tahoe finally excises old spinning rust icons throughout the OS.
Latest macOS 26 Tahoe finally excises old spinning rust icons throughout the OS.
The Macintosh HD icon became less visible a few years back, when new macOS installs stopped showing your internal disk on the desktop by default. That icon went mostly untouched for over a decade, though it got a Retina resolution upgrade in 2012 along with the rest of the operating system, and it got a small facelift in Mac OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) in 2014. Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica, with a focus on consumer tech including computer hardware and in-depth reviews of operating systems like Windows and macOS.
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