• • Source model, with components August 28, 2009; 9 years ago ( 2009-08-28) 10.6.8 v1.1 (Build 10K549) / July 25, 2011; 7 years ago ( 2011-07-25) Update method Platforms, type () and (APSL) Preceded by Succeeded by Official website at the (archived September 29, 2009) Support status Unsupported as of February 25, 2014 and iTunes ended in September 2014, though the last security update happened in September 2013 and an update to the on Snow Leopard was made in January 2016. Part of a series on. • • • Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh of, 's desktop and server for computers. Snow Leopard was publicly unveiled on June 8, 2009 at the.

On August 28, 2009, it was released worldwide, and was made available for purchase from Apple's website and its retail stores at the price of US$29 for a single-user license. As a result of the low price, initial sales of Snow Leopard were significantly higher than that of its predecessors. The release of Snow Leopard came nearly two years after the introduction of, the second longest time span between successive Mac OS X releases (the time span between and Leopard was the longest). Unlike those of previous versions of Mac OS X, the goals of Snow Leopard were improved performance, greater efficiency and the reduction of its overall. Addition of new end-user features was not a primary consideration: its name signified its goal to be a refinement of the previous OS X version,. Much of the software in Mac OS X was extensively rewritten for this release in order to take advantage fully of modern hardware. New programming frameworks, such as, were created, allowing software developers to use in their applications.

With OS 10.6.8 you will have the App Store app installed, which allows you to install later versions of OSX depending on your Mac's ID. You can get your Mac's ID from Apple Menu --> About This. Open Menu Close Menu. Sep 5, 2015 - This weeks featured Mac setup is the awesome home recording studio of. Able to spread out resource heavy music software amount them.

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This is also the first Mac OS release since that does not support Macs using processors, as Apple now intends to focus on. As support for was dropped in, Snow Leopard is the last version of Mac OS X that is able to run PowerPC-only applications. Snow Leopard was succeeded by (version 10.7) on July 20, 2011. Since then, Apple has continued to sell Snow Leopard from its online store for the benefit of users that require Snow Leopard in order to upgrade to later versions of OS X, which have all been distributed through the introduced in the Snow Leopard 10.6.6 update. Snow Leopard is the last release of Mac OS X to support the 32-bit. Because of this, Snow Leopard still remains somewhat popular alongside, [ ] despite its lack of continued support, mostly because of its ability to run PowerPC-based applications [ ] as Rosetta was dropped in.

Snow Leopard was also the last release of Mac OS X to ship with a welcome video at first boot after installation. [ ] Reception of Snow Leopard was positive. Although Snow Leopard has been officially out of support since 2014, it remains available for purchase both on Apple's App Store, and in the form of available through Apple's online store. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • System requirements [ ] Apple states the following basic Snow Leopard system requirements are: • Mac computer with an processor (). ' processors such as and can run only 32-bit applications; later architecture processors such as, Core i5 and i7 are also able to run 64-bit applications. • 1 GB of • 5 GB of free disk space • (also accessible via Remote Disc) or external or DVD drive for installation Additional requirements to use certain features: • hardware acceleration support requires an,, or graphics card • requires a supported or Snow Leopard does not support -based Macs (e.g.,,,, (G3-G5), all, plus pre-February 2006 and the ), although PowerPC applications are supported via, which is now an optional install. License [ ] Snow Leopard is available as an upgrade for Intel-based computers.