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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was billed as primarily under-the-hoodchanges to OS X 10.5 Leopard, butit was much more significant than that.

Next year's 10.6 reference release of Mac OS X promises to deliver technology updates throughout the system without focusing on the customer-facing marketing features that typically sell a new. We don't have any change log information yet for version 10.6.8 of Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.8. Sometimes publishers take a little while to make this information available, so please check back in a few days to see if it has been updated. Virtualising Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server/Rosetta The ability to virtualise Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is important and very useful as it is the only way to use Rosetta (PowerPC) based applications on a modern Macintosh computer. MacStrategy presents a special guide to doing just this. Download Old Version of Firefox for Mac for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) (Intel) Skip Development Versions tead.

Snow Leopard was announced at the June 2008 Worldwide DeveloperConference (WWDC) and released on August 28, 2009.

For the first time since Mac OS 8.5 had been released in October1998, Apple left behind an entire processor architecure. Back then, itleft behind the Motorola 680x0 CPUs in favor of PowerPC (the first PPCMacs had been introduced in March 1994). With 10.6, Apple left behindPowerPC CPUs in favor of Intel (the first Intel Macs were introduced inJanuary 2006).

Big Changes with 10.6

Snow Leopard is smaller than Leopard. By removing PowerPC and otherunnecessary legacy code, Apple greatly reduced the drive space neededby the operating system. It takes up about half as much space and thuswill install about twice as fast as Leopard. That said, it makes moredemands of your hardware, so a Mac that runs Leopard comfortably with 1GB of memory may feel very sluggish with Snow Leopard once you havemore than a couple apps running. We strongly recommend at least 2 GB ofmemory for 10.6.
Grand CentralDispatch (GCD) means that the entire operating system is designedto take advantage of multiple cores, whether on one chip or more thanone. Process threads, which were handled by apps in the past, are nowhandled by the OS with new programs designed to use GCD. GCD willassign only as many threads to an app as it currently needs, whichmakes for better use of resources.
Full 64-bitsupport means programs will no longer be limited to 4 GB of RAM;the new maximum (16 exabytes) is meaningless, as no computer in theforseeable future will be able to hold billions of gigabytes of memory.Both the OS and almost all 'system applications' (Finder, Safari, Mail,iChat, iCal, etc.) are ready for 64-bit operation. And Snow Leopard iscompletely backwards-compatible with 32-bit apps. First generationIntel Macs designed around Intel Core Solo and Core Duo chips do notsupport 64-bit operation; all Macs since then do.
OpenCL takesadvantage of powerful modern graphic processing units (GPUs, a.k.a.'video cards') for more than displaying video. All of that processingpower will also be available for general purpose computing.
QuickTime Xintroduced a new QuickTime player and will take full advantage of CoreAudio, Core Video, and Core Animation. It can record audio and videousing your Mac's built-in microphone and webcam, and it can trim andexport for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, YouTube, and MobileMe so you don'tneed to worry about which codec to use. QuickTime X supports HTTP livestreaming, which can adjust quality on the fly based on availablenetwork bandwidth. Of course it takes advantage of GCD and 64-bitoperation.
ExchangeSupport is built right into the OS. Mail, iCal, and Address Bookwill work with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. This may explain whyMicrosoft finally brought Outlook to the Mac with Office 2010. So long,Outlook.
The Finder has been completely rewritten to support 64-bitoperation and take advantage of Grand Central Dispatch. This makes theFinder much more responsive.
For the first time, the Services menu is contextual: You will onlysee the services available to the current app. (Until now, half or moreof the Services might be grayed out because they don't work with yourcurrent program.)
Exposé can work in the Dock - click and hold an applicationicon and it will display that app's active documents in a grid. Appleclaims this will make it 'even easier to find what you're lookingfor.'
Time Machine backups are up to 50% faster, according to Apple. Thiswill be especially helpful for that first, long, full backup.
Macs shut down and wake up more quickly, and joining a WiFi networkis also faster. This makes for more energy efficient file sharing -your sleeping Mac uses less energy and wakes more quickly to serve upfiles.
If you travel with you're Mac, you'll appreciate automatic timezone settings.
The 'Wake on Demand' feature may keep your Mac from staying asleep.The fix is to reset the Energy Saver settings to their defaults, thenput in your own settings.

Things Lost with 10.6

There is no support for LocalTalk/AppleTalk in Snow Leopard. You'llneed to find another way to connect those old printers.
There is no longer any support for Palm OS devices in iSync. TheMissing Sync (commercial software) does support Palm devices.
Snow Leopard ignores creator codes when launching documents,something every Mac OS prior to 10.6 has supported - it's beenpart of the Mac OS since the beginning.
There is no write support for HFS+ volumes (floppies, hard drives,etc.)

Snow Leopard was replaced with OS X 10.7 Lion on July 20, 2011 afterjust 11 months at the helm.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Intel-based Mac
1 GB of RAM, although 2 GB is strongly recommended
5 GB of available drive space
DVD-compatible optical drive
Grand Central Dispatch requires a dual-core CPU
64-bit support requires a Core 2 or newer CPU
OpenCL is compatible with all current Macs. It is not compatiblewith:

iMacs released before March 2009
Mac mini released before March 2009
MacBook released before October 2008
MacBook Pro released before June 2007
Mac Pro released before January 2008 (Jan. 2008 and later modelswith unsupported video cards can used the discontinued GeForce 8800upgrade kit - Apple part no. MB137Z/A - for OpenCL support. The GeForce GT 120 retails for $149, is designed to work with the 2009Mac Pro and has been reported to work with the 2008 model as well.)

Downloadable Updates

Standalone Updates let you update to a newer version of Mac OS Xfrom your hard drive instead of using Software Update, which requiresan Internet connection. Download the one(s) you need and install themafter mounting the disk image and launching the Installer program.

There are two types of Standalone Updates: Individual (or Delta) andCombo.

Individual Updates update one version of Mac OS X to thenext version. For example, the Mac OS X 10.6.4 Update updates Mac OS X10.6.3 to version 10.6.4. Individual Updates are also known as DeltaUpdates.
Combo Updates update the base version of a Mac OS X releaseto the version specified in the Combo Update, including allintermediate updates. For example, the Mac OS X 10.6.4 Combo Updateupdates any earlier version of Mac OS X 10.6 to Mac OS X 10.6.4 using asingle installer, as opposed to installing the individual Mac OS X10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, and 10.6.4 updates.

Standalone Updates are generally available 24 to 48 hours after theUpdate is available through Software Update.

If you burn a Standalone Update to CD, its disk image must be copiedto your desktop or another location on your Mac OS X startup disk inorder to be installed.

This page will be updated as new Standalone Updates becomeavailable.

Mac OS X 10.6.1

Mac OS X 10.6.2

Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Mac OS X 10.6.3

Snow Leopard 10.6.2

Mac OS X 10.6.4

Mac OS X 10.6.5

Mac OS X 10.6.6

Version 10.6.6 introduced the Mac App Store.

Snow Leopard 10.6.4

Mac OS X 10.6.7

Mac OS X 10.6.8

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