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Screenshot of Mac OS X Leopard. Note how the Dock and window designs are different to previous versions of Mac OS X. | |
Developer | Apple Inc. |
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OS family | |
Source model | Closed, with open source components |
Released to manufacturing | October 26, 2007; 11 years ago[2] |
Latest release | 10.5.8 (Build 9L31a)[3] / August 13, 2009; 10 years ago[4] |
Update method | Apple Software Update |
Platforms | IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC |
Kernel type | Hybrid (XNU) |
License | Commercialproprietary software[5] with Apple Public Source License (APSL)[citation needed] |
Preceded by | Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger |
Succeeded by | Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard |
Official website | Apple - Mac OS X Leopard at the Wayback Machine (archived May 28, 2009) |
Support status | |
Obsolete, unsupported as of about June 23, 2011[6][7] |
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of Mac OS X (now named macOS), Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Snow Leopard was publicly unveiled on June 8, 2009 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.
Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5) is the sixth major release of Mac OS X (now named macOS), Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Leopard was released on October 26, 2007 as the successor of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and is available in two editions: a desktop version suitable for personal computers, and a server version, Mac OS X Server. It retailed for $129[2] for the desktop version and $499 for Server.[8] Leopard was superseded by Snow Leopard (version 10.6). Leopard is the final version of Mac OS X to support the PowerPC architecture as Snow Leopard functions solely on Intel based Macs.
According to Apple, Leopard contains over 300 changes and enhancements over its predecessor, Mac OS X Tiger,[9] covering core operating system components as well as included applications and developer tools. Leopard introduces a significantly revised desktop, with a redesigned Dock, Stacks, a semitransparent menu bar, and an updated Finder that incorporates the Cover Flow visual navigation interface first seen in iTunes. Other notable features include support for writing 64-bitgraphical user interface applications, an automated backup utility called Time Machine, support for Spotlight searches across multiple machines, and the inclusion of Front Row and Photo Booth, which were previously included with only some Mac models.
Apple missed Leopard's release time frame as originally announced by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs. When first discussed in June 2005, Jobs had stated that Apple intended to release Leopard at the end of 2006 or early 2007.[10] A year later, this was amended to Spring 2007;[11] however on April 12, 2007, Apple issued a statement that its release would be delayed until October 2007 because of the development of the iPhone.[12]
- 1New and changed features
- 2System requirements
New and changed features[edit]
End-user features[edit]
Apple advertised that Mac OS X Leopard has 300+ new features,[13] including:
- A new and improved Automator, with easy starting points to easily start a workflow. It also can quickly create or edit workflows with new interface improvements. Now it can use a new action called 'Watch Me Do' that lets you record a user action (like pressing a button or controlling an application without built-in Automator support) and replay as an action in a workflow. It can create more useful Automator workflows with actions for RSS feeds, iSight camera video snapshots, PDF manipulation, and much more.
- Back to My Mac, a feature for MobileMe users that allows users to access files on their home computer while away from home via the internet.
- Boot Camp, a software assistant allowing for the installation of other operating systems, such as Windows XP (SP2 or later) or Windows Vista, on a separate partition (or separate internal drive) on Intel-based Macs.
- Dashboard enhancements, including Web Clip, a feature that allows users to turn a part of any Web page displayed in Safari into a live Dashboard widget, and Dashcode to help developers code widgets.[14]
- New Desktop, comprises a redesigned 3-D dock with a new grouping feature called Stacks, which displays files in either a 'fan' style, 'grid' style, or (since 10.5.2) a 'list' style. Rory Prior, on the ThinkMac blog, criticized the shelf-like Dock along with a number of other changes to the user interface.[15]
- Dictionary can now search Wikipedia, and a dictionary of Apple terminology as well. Also included is the Japanese-language dictionary Daijisen, Progressive E-J and Progressive J-E dictionaries, and the 25,000-word thesaurus Tsukaikata no Wakaru Ruigo Reikai Jiten (使い方の分かる類語例解辞典), all of which are provided by the Japanese publisher Shogakukan.[16][17]
- A redesigned Finder, with features similar to those seen in iTunes 7, including Cover Flow and a Source list-like sidebar.
- Front Row has been reworked to closely resemble the interface of the original Apple TV.
- iCal calendar sharing and group scheduling as well as syncing event invitations from Mail.[18] The icon also reflects the current date even when the application is not running. In previous versions of Mac OS X, the icon would show July 17 in the icon any time the application was not running but the current date when the application was running.
- iChat enhancements, including multiple logins, invisibility, animated icons, and tabbed chats, similar to features present in Pidgin, Adium and the iChat plugin Chax; iChat Theater, allowing users to incorporate images from iPhoto, presentations from Keynote, videos from QuickTime, and other Quick Look features into video chats; and Backdrops, which are similar to chroma keys, but use a real-time difference matte technique which does not require a green or blue screen. iChat also implements screen sharing, a feature previously available with Apple Remote Desktop.[11][19][20]
- Mail enhancements including the additions of RSS feeds, Stationery, Notes, and to-dos. To-dos use a system-wide service that is available to all applications.[21]
- Network file sharing improvements include more granular control over permissions, consolidation of AFP, FTP and SMB sharing into one control panel, and the ability to share individual folders, a feature that had not been available since Mac OS 9.[22]
- Parental controls now include the ability to place restrictions on use of the Internet and to set parental controls from anywhere using remote setup.[23]
- Photo Booth enhancements, including video recording with real-time filters and blue/green-screen technology.
- Podcast Capture, an application allowing users to record and distribute podcasts. It requires access to a computer running Mac OS X Server with Podcast Producer.
- Preview adds support for annotation, graphics, extraction, search, markup, Instant Alpha and size adjustment tools.[24]
- Quick Look, a framework allowing documents to be viewed without opening them in an external application and can preview it in full screen.[25] Plug-ins are available for Quick Look so that you can also view other files, such as Installer Packages.
The Finder, showing files in Cover Flow View and viewing a file using Quick Look
- Safari 3, which includes Web Clip.
- Spaces, an implementation of virtual desktops (individually called 'Spaces'), allows multiple desktops per user, with certain applications and windows in each desktop.[26] Users can organize certain Spaces for certain applications (e.g., one for work-related tasks and one for entertainment) and switch between them. Exposé works inside Spaces, allowing the user to see at a glance all desktops on one screen.[27]) Users can create and control up to 16 spaces, and applications can be switched between each one, creating a very large workspace. The auto-switching feature in Spaces has annoyed some of its users. Apple added a new preference in 10.5.2 which disabled this feature, but there were still bugs found while switching windows. In 10.5.3, this problem was addressed and was no longer an issue.[28]
- Spotlight incorporates additional search capabilities such as Boolean operators, as well as the ability to search other computers (with appropriate permissions).[29]
- Time Machine, an automated backup utility which allows the user to restore files that have been deleted or replaced by another version of a file.[30] Though generally lauded in the press as a step forward for data recovery, Time Machine has been criticized in multiple publications for lacking the capabilities of third-party backup software. Analyzing the feature for TidBITS, Joe Kissell pointed out that Time Machine does not create bootable copies of backed-up volumes, does not back up to AirPort Disk hard drives and will not back up FileVault encrypted home directories until the user logs out, concluding that the feature is 'pretty good at what it does' but he will only use it as part of a 'broader backup strategy'.[31][32][33] One of these issues has been resolved, however; On March 19, 2008, updates were released for AirPort and Time Machine, allowing for Time Machine to use a USB hard disk which has been connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station.[34]
- Universal Access enhancements: significant improvements to applications including VoiceOver, along with increased support for Braille, closed captioning and a new high‐quality Speech synthesis voice.[35]
- Many changes to the user interface, such as a transparent menu bar, new icons, and a 3D Dock. As well as this, the Apple icon is now black instead of blue. R.L. Prior, on the ThinkMac blog, criticized a number of changes to Leopard's user interface, including the transparent menu bar and the new folder icons.[15] Decreased transparency of the menu bar, along with the ability to disable the menu bar transparency were added with the 10.5.2 release on February 11, 2008.[36]
- Russian language support, bringing the total to 18 languages.[37]
- Leopard removes support for Classic applications.[38]
- Introduced the Alex voice to VoiceOver. According to Apple, it is the most natural and understandable voice yet.[39]
Developer technologies[edit]
- Native support by many libraries and frameworks for 64-bit applications, allowing 64-bit Cocoa applications. Existing 32-bit applications using those libraries and frameworks should continue to run without the need for emulation or translation.[40]
- Leopard offers the Objective-C 2.0 runtime, which includes new features such as garbage collection. Xcode 3.0 supports the updated language and was itself rewritten with it.[41]
- A new framework, Core Animation, allows a developer to create complex animations while specifying only a 'start' and a 'goal' space. The main goal of Core Animation is to enable the creation of complex animations with small amounts of program code.
- Apple integrates DTrace from the OpenSolaris project and adds a graphical interface called Instruments (previously Xray). DTrace provides tools that users, administrators and developers can use to tune the performance of the operating system and the applications that run on it.[42]
- The new Scripting Bridge allows programmers to use Python and Ruby to interface with the Cocoa frameworks.[43]
- Ruby on Rails is included in the default install.
- Leopard’s OpenGL stack has been updated to version 2.1, and uses LLVM to increase its vertex processing speed.[44] Apple has been working to get LLVM integrated into GCC;[45] LLVM’s use within other operating system facilities has not been announced.
- The Graphics and Media State of the Union address confirmed many other features are possible because of Core Animation, such as live desktops, improvements to Quartz Composer with custom patches, a new PDF Kit for developers, and improvements to QuickTimeAPIs.
- The
FSEvents
framework allows applications to register for notifications of changes to a given directory tree.[46] - Leopard includes a read-only implementation of the ZFS file system.
- In mid-December 2006, a pre-release version of Leopard appeared to include support for Sun’s ZFS.[47]Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and President of Sun Microsystems, boasted on June 6, 2007, that ZFS had become 'the file system' for Leopard.[48] However, the senior project marketing director for Mac OS X stated on June 11, 2007, that the existing HFS+, not ZFS, would be used in Leopard. Apple later clarified that a read-only version of ZFS would be included.[49]
- Leopard includes drivers for UDF 2.5, necessary for reading HD DVD and Blu-ray discs using third-party drives, but the included DVD Player software can only play HD DVDs authored by DVD Studio Pro.[50]
- Leopard includes a framework implementing latent semantic mapping for classifying (e.g. textual) data.
- Leopard is the first operating system with open source BSD code to be certified as fully UNIX-compliant.[51][52] Certification means that software following the Single UNIX Specification can be compiled and run on Leopard without the need for any code modification.[43] The certification only applies to Leopard when run on Intel processors.[52]
- Leopard includes J2SE 5.0.[53]
Security enhancements[edit]
New security features intend to provide better internal resiliency to successful attacks, in addition to preventing attacks from being successful in the first place.
- Library Randomization
- Leopard implements library randomization,[54] which randomizes the locations of some libraries in memory. Vulnerabilities that corrupt program memory often rely on known addresses for these library routines, which allow injected code to launch processes or change files. Library randomization is presumably a stepping-stone to a more complete implementation of address space layout randomization at a later date.
- Application Layer Firewall
- Leopard ships with two firewall engines: the original BSD IPFW, which was present in earlier releases of Mac OS X, and the new Leopard Application Layer Firewall. Unlike IPFW, which intercepts and filters IP datagrams before the kernel performs significant processing, the Application Layer Firewall operates at the socket layer, bound to individual processes. The Application Layer Firewall can therefore make filtering decisions on a per-application basis. Of the two firewall engines, only the Application Layer Firewall is fully exposed in the Leopard user interface. The new firewall offers less control over individual packet decisions (users can decide to allow or deny connections system-wide or to individual applications, but must use IPFW to set fine-grained TCP/IP header-level policies). It also makes several policy exceptions for system processes: neither mDNSResponder nor programs running with superuser privileges are filtered.[55]
- Sandboxes
- Leopard includes kernel-level support for role-based access control (RBAC). RBAC is intended to prevent, for example, an application like Mail from editing the password database.
- Application Signing
- Leopard provides a framework to use public key signatures for code signing to verify, in some circumstances, that code has not been tampered with. Signatures can also be used to ensure that one program replacing another is truly an 'update', and carry any special security privileges across to the new version. This reduces the number of user security prompts, and the likelihood of the user being trained to simply clicking 'OK' to everything.
- Secure Guest Account
- Guests can be given access to a Leopard system with an account that the system erases and resets at logout.[56]
Security features in Leopard have been criticized as weak or ineffective, with the publisher Heise Security documenting that the Leopard installer downgraded firewall protection and exposed services to attack even when the firewall was re-enabled.[57][58] Several researchers noted that the Library Randomization feature added to Leopard was ineffective compared to mature implementations on other platforms, and that the new 'secure Guest account' could be abused by Guests to retain access to the system even after the Leopard log out process erased their home directory.[59][60]
System requirements[edit]
Apple states the following basic Leopard system requirements, although, for some specific applications and features (such as iChat backdrops) an Intel processor is required:[61]
- Processor: any Intel processor, or PowerPC G5 or G4 (867 MHz and faster) processor
- Optical drive: internal or external DVD drive (for installation of the operating system)
- Memory: minimum 512 MB of RAM (additional RAM (1 GB) is recommended for development purposes)
- Hard drive capacity: Minimum 9 GB of disk space available.
Leopard’s retail version was not released in separate versions for each type of processor, but instead consisted of one universal release that could run on both PowerPC and Intel processors.[40] However, the install discs that ship with Intel-based Macs only contain Intel binaries.[citation needed]
Processor type and speed are checked during installation and installation halted if insufficient; however, Leopard will run on slower G4 processor machines (e.g., a 733 MHz Quicksilver) if the installation is performed on a supported Mac and its hard drive then moved to a slower/unsupported one (the drive may either be an internal mechanism or a Firewire external).[citation needed]
Supported machines[edit]
Leopard can run on the later flat-panel iMac G4s, the iMac G5, iMac Intel Core Duo and iMac Intel Core 2 Duo, PowerBook G4, Power Mac G4, Power Mac G5, iBook G4, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Pro, Mac Mini, Xserve, Xserve G5, Xserve RAID, Macintosh Server G4, and later eMac models. Leopard can run on older hardware as long as they have a G4 upgrade installed running at the 867 MHz or faster, have at least 9 GB free of hard drive space, 512 MB RAM and have a DVD drive. Leopard however will not run on the 900 MHz iBook G3 models even though they exceed the minimum 867 MHz requirement. This is due to the lack of AltiVec support in the G3 line of processors. Leopard can be 'hacked' (see below) to install on these G3 and pre-867 MHz G4 machines but the system may behave erratically and many of the programs, features, and functions may not work properly or at all. As of mid-2010, some Apple computers have firmware factory installed which will no longer allow installation of Mac OS X Leopard. These computers only allow installation of Mac OS X Snow Leopard.[citation needed] However, some computers (such as the 2011 model of the Mac mini) can have Leopard installed on them without hacking.[citation needed]
Usage on unsupported hardware[edit]
Some ways of running Leopard on certain unsupported hardware, primarily PowerPC G4 computers with CPU speeds lower than the official requirement of 867 MHz, have been discovered. A common way is use of the program LeopardAssist, which is a bootloader similar in some respects to XPostFacto (used for installing earlier releases of Mac OS X on unsupported G3 and pre-G3 Macs) that uses the Mac’s Open Firmware to tell Leopard that the machine does have a CPU meeting the 867 MHz minimum requirement that the Installer checks for before installation is allowed to commence, when in reality the CPU is slower.[62] Currently, LeopardAssist only runs on slower G4s and many people have installed Leopard successfully on these older machines.
Users who have access to supported hardware have installed Leopard on the supported machine then simply moved the hard drive to the unsupported machine. Alternatively, the Leopard Installation DVD was booted on a supported Mac, then installed on an unsupported Mac via Firewire Target Disk Mode. Leopard is only compiled for AltiVec-enabled PowerPC processors (G4 and G5) though, as well as Intel, so both of these methods will only work on Macs with G4 or later CPUs. While some of the earlier beta releases were made to run on some later G3 machines (mostly later 800–900 MHz iBooks), no success with the retail version has been officially reported on G3 Macs except for some later iMacs and 'Pismo' PowerBook G3s with G4 processor upgrades installed.
For a number of months after Leopard's release it appeared that the only G3 Macs on which Leopard could be run were those with both an aftermarket G4 processor and an AGP graphics card, as failures with the OS partially booting before crashing were reported on older Macs such as the original tray-loading iMacs and the Beige and Blue & White Power Mac G3 (all with G4 upgrades as Leopard will not even begin to load without one) whereas it would boot fine on newer Macs where the Installer restriction had been circumvented. However, more recently it has been reported[63][64] that with some more work and use of kernel extensions from XPostFacto, Tiger and beta builds of Leopard, the OS can be made to run on G4-upgraded Macs as old as the Power Macintosh 9500, despite the lack of AGP-based graphics. While Leopard can be run on any Mac with a G4 or later processor, some functionality such as Front Row or Time Machine fails to work without a Quartz Extreme-capable graphics card, which many of the earlier G4s did not include in their factory specification.
Since Apple moved to using Intel processors in their computers, the OSx86 community has developed and now also allows Mac OS X Tiger and later releases to be installed and run successfully on non-Apple x86-based computers, albeit in violation of Apple's licensing agreement for Mac OS X.
Packaging[edit]
The retail packaging for Leopard is significantly smaller than that of previous versions of Mac OS X (although later copies of Tiger also came in the new smaller box). It also includes a lenticular cover, making the X appear to float above a purple galaxy, somewhat resembling the default Leopard desktop wallpaper.[65]
Release history[edit]
Version | Build | Date | OS name | Notes | Download |
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10.5 | 9A581 | October 26, 2007 | Darwin 9.0 | Original retail DVD release | N/A |
10.5.1 | 9B18 | November 15, 2007 | Darwin 9.1 | About the Mac OS X 10.5.1 Update; Second retail DVD release | Mac OS X 10.5.1 Update |
10.5.2 | 9C31 | February 11, 2008 | Darwin 9.2 | About the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update | Mac OS X 10.5.2 Combo Update |
9C7010 | |||||
10.5.3 | 9D34 | May 28, 2008 | Darwin 9.3 | About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update | Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update |
10.5.4 | 9E17 | June 30, 2008 | Darwin 9.4 | About the Mac OS X 10.5.4 update; Third retail DVD release | Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update |
10.5.5 | 9F33 | September 15, 2008 | Darwin 9.5 | About the Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update | Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update |
10.5.6 | 9G55 | December 15, 2008 | Darwin 9.6 | About the Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update | Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update |
9G66 | January 6, 2009 | Fourth retail DVD release (part of Mac Box Set) | N/A | ||
10.5.7 | 9J61 | May 12, 2009 | Darwin 9.7 | About the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update | Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update |
10.5.8 | 9L30 | August 5, 2009 | Darwin 9.8 | About the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Update | Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update |
Compatibility[edit]
After Leopard’s release, there were widely reported incidents of new Leopard installs hanging during boot on the blue screen that appears just before the login process starts.[66] Apple attributed these problems to an outdated version of an unsupported add-on extension called Application Enhancer (APE), from Unsanity which had been incompatible with Leopard. Some users were unaware that APE had been silently installed during installation of Logitech mouse drivers. However, only the users who did not have the latest version of APE installed (2.0.3 at that time) were affected.[67] Apple published a knowledge base article on how to solve this problem.[68]
Google announced that the Chrome browser will be dropping support for Leopard starting with Chrome 21. By that time Chrome will no longer auto-update, and new Chrome installations are not allowed. Their rationale for removal of support is that Leopard is an 'OS X version also no longer being updated by Apple.'[69]
Firefox also dropped support for Leopard after it shipped Firefox 16 in October 2012.[70]TenFourFox is a port of Firefox for the PPC architecture, released after Firefox dropped support for Leopard.
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External links[edit]
- 2006 WWDC keynote presentation at Apple.com
- 2007 WWDC keynote presentation at Apple.com
- Mac OS X Leopard review at Ars Technica
Preceded by Mac OS X 10.4 | Mac OS X 10.5 2007 | Succeeded by Mac OS X 10.6 |
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Source model | Closed, with open source components |
Released to manufacturing | August 28, 2009; 10 years ago[2] |
Latest release | 10.6.8 v1.1 (Build 10K549) / July 25, 2011; 8 years ago[3] |
Update method | Apple Software Update |
Platforms | IA-32, x86-64[4] |
Kernel type | Hybrid (XNU) |
License | Commercial software license and Apple Public Source License (APSL) |
Preceded by | Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard |
Succeeded by | Mac OS X 10.7 Lion |
Official website | Apple - Mac OS X Snow Leopard - The world's most advanced OS at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2009) |
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of Mac OS X (now named macOS), Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.
Snow Leopard was publicly unveiled on June 8, 2009 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. On August 28, 2009, it was released worldwide,[2] 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.[10] The release of Snow Leopard came nearly two years after the introduction of Mac OS X Leopard, the second longest time span between successive Mac OS X releases (the time span between Tiger 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 memory footprint. 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, Leopard.[11] Much of the software in Mac OS X was extensively rewritten for this release in order to take advantage fully of modern Macintosh hardware. New programming frameworks, such as OpenCL, were created, allowing software developers to use graphics cards in their applications. This is also the first Mac OS release since System 7.1.1 that does not support Macs using PowerPC processors, as Apple now intends to focus on its current line of Intel-based products.[2] As support for Rosetta was dropped in OS X Lion, Snow Leopard is the last version of Mac OS X that is able to run PowerPC-only applications.
Snow Leopard was succeeded by Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) on July 20, 2011.[12] For some time on, Apple continued to sell Snow Leopard from its online store for the benefit of users that required Snow Leopard in order to upgrade to later versions of OS X, which have all been distributed through the Mac App Store introduced in the Snow Leopard 10.6.6 update.[13]
Snow Leopard was the last release of Mac OS X to support the 32-bit Intel Core Solo and Intel Core DuoCPUs. Because of this, Snow Leopard still remained somewhat popular alongside Mac OS X Tiger,[citation needed] despite its lack of continued support,[14] mostly because of its ability to run PowerPC-based applications[citation needed] as Rosetta was dropped in Mac OS X Lion.
Snow Leopard was also the last release of Mac OS X to ship with a welcome video at first boot after installation.[citation needed] 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 boxedDVD-ROMs available through Apple's online store.[15]
- 3New or changed features
- 4Developer technologies
System requirements[edit]
Apple states the following basic Snow Leopard system requirements are:
- Mac computer with an Intel processor (IA-32). 'Yonah' processors such as Core Solo and Core Duo can run only 32-bit applications; later x86-64 architecture processors such as Core 2 Duo, Core i5 and i7 are also able to run 64-bit applications.
- 1 GB of RAM
- 5 GB of free disk space
- DVD drive (also accessible via Remote Disc) or external USB or FireWire DVD drive for installation
Additional requirements to use certain features:[16]
- QuickTimeH.264 hardware acceleration support requires an Nvidia GeForce9400M, 320M, or GT 330M graphics card
- OpenCL requires a supported Nvidia or ATIgraphics card[16]
Snow Leopard does not support PowerPC-based Macs (e.g., Power Macs, PowerBooks, iBooks, iMacs (G3-G5), all eMacs, plus pre-February 2006 Mac minis and the Power Mac G4 Cube), although PowerPC applications are supported via Rosetta, which is now an optional install.
License[edit]
Snow Leopard is available as an upgrade for Intel-based Macintosh computers. Single-user licenses and 'family pack' licenses for up to five computers are available. For qualifying Mac computers bought after June 8, 2009, Apple offered a discounted price through their 'up-to-date' program provided that customers' orders were faxed or postmarked by December 26, 2009. The standalone retail version of Snow Leopard is marketed as being restricted to users of Mac OS X Leopard, while the recommended upgrade path from Apple for Mac OS X Tiger is through the 'Mac Box Set', which includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the current versions of iLife and iWork.
There are three licenses available.[17] These licenses differ in their requirements for pre-installed versions of Mac OS X:
- Leopard Upgrade: requires that Mac OS X Leopard already be installed.
If you have purchased an Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard license, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer as long as that computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it.[18]
- A 'Family Pack Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard' license is also mentioned as a subset of the Leopard Upgrade.
- Single Use: places no restriction on which (if any) version of Mac OS X should already be installed. Used for the non-upgrade and Mac Box Set versions of Snow Leopard.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this License .. you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time.[18]
- Family Pack: identical to the Single Use license in this respect.
It is not entirely clear which license is offered with the retail version of Snow Leopard. As noted above, Apple's website advertised this version as an 'upgrade from Mac OS X Leopard for $29' and suggest that others upgrade using the Mac Box Set, implying the stand-alone retail version to be a 'Leopard Upgrade' license. On the other hand, some Apple press materials appear to indicate that this version is, in fact, the 'Single Use' license:
The Snow Leopard single user license will be available for a suggested retail price of $29 (US)[19] (emphasis added)
However, even if the retail edition of Snow Leopard is in fact a 'Leopard Upgrade', the company has acknowledged that there is no technical barrier in that edition preventing a direct upgrade from Mac OS X 'Tiger'.[20]
The Leopard Upgrade license explicitly applies to the Up-To-Date Program[21] (US$9.95) for Macs bought between June 8 and December 26, 2009[22] and the installation discs provided through this program are clearly marked as upgrades unlike either of the retail editions.
New or changed features[edit]
Mac OS X Snow Leopard is intended to be a release aimed to refine the existing feature set, expand the technological capabilities of the operating system, and improve application efficiency. Many of the changes involve how the system works in the background and are not intended to be seen by the user. For example, the Finder application was completely rewritten in the Cocoa application programming interface. Despite significant changes in the software, users will experience almost no changes in the user interface. Snow Leopard includes the following changes:
- Mac App Store – An application store built in the image of the iOS App Store. Released on version 10.6.6.
- Boot Camp now allows Windows partitions to read and copy files from HFS+ partitions. The new version also adds support for advanced features on Cinema Displays and a new command-line version of the Startup Disk Control Panel.
- The Finder has been completely rewritten in Cocoa to take advantage of the new technologies introduced in Snow Leopard.
- A much smaller OS footprint, taking up about 7 GB less space than Mac OS X Leopard. Some of the recovered disk space (~250 MB) is because printer drivers are now downloaded or installed only as needed, rather than being pre-installed. The default install only contains those drivers needed for existing printers and a small subset of popular printers.[23]
- iChat enhancements include greater resolution video chats in iChat Theater and lowered upload bandwidth requirements.
- Microsoft Exchange support is now integrated into the Mail, Address Book, and iCal applications. However, only Microsoft Exchange 2007 is supported and customers using prior versions of Exchange must either upgrade or use Microsoft Entourage.
- Full multi-touch trackpad support has been added to notebooks prior to those introduced in October 2008.[24] While the original MacBook Air and other early multi-touch trackpad enabled notebooks had support for some gestures, they were unable to use four-finger gestures. This limitation has now been removed in Snow Leopard.
- Preview can infer the structure of a paragraph in a PDF document.
- QuickTime X, the next version of QuickTime player and multimedia framework, has been completely rewritten into a full 64-bit Cocoa application and builds on the media technologies in Mac OS X, such as Core Audio, Core Video, and Core Animation, to deliver playback. Apple has redesigned the QuickTime user interface to resemble the full-screen QuickTime view in prior versions, where the entire window displays the video. The titlebar and playback controls fade in and out as needed. QuickTime X also supports HTTP live streaming and takes advantage of ColorSync to provide high-quality color reproduction.[25] If Snow Leopard is installed on a Mac with an nVidia GeForce 9400M, 320M or GT 330M graphics card, QuickTime X will be able to use its video-decoding capabilities to reduce CPU load.
- Safari 4 features Top Sites, Cover Flow, VoiceOver, expanded standards support, and built-in crash resistance, which prevents browser crashes caused by plug-ins by running them in separate processes.[26] Safari 4 is bundled with Snow Leopard but does not require it, as it is available for free for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard as well as Windows.
- Time Machine connection establishment and backups are now much faster.
- VoiceOver has also been greatly enhanced in Snow Leopard. Reading of web pages is improved with Auto Web Spots — areas of a page automatically designated for quick access. On newer Apple portables, trackpad gestures can be used to control VoiceOver functions, including the 'rotor' gesture first seen in VoiceOver for the iPhone 3GS, allowing for the changing of certain VoiceOver navigation options by rotating fingers on the trackpad. Braille Display support is also improved, with Bluetooth displays supported for the first time.[27]
The 10.6.6 update introduced support for the Mac App Store, Apple's digital distribution platform for OS X applications.[28]
Refinements to the user interface[edit]
While the Finder was completely rewritten in Cocoa, it did not receive a major user interface overhaul. Instead, the interface has been modified in several areas to promote ease of use. These changes include:
- The 'traffic light' titlebar controls are now slightly lighter in appearance and have less depth than they did in Mac OS X 10.5.
- Exposé can now display windows for a single program by left clicking and holding its icon in the dock. Windows are arranged in a new grid pattern.
- Contextual menus which come out of Dock icons now have more options and have a new look, with a semi-transparent charcoal background and white text.
- An option has been added to the Finder preferences that allows the user to modify search behavior. The default setting can be selected to (1) search the entire computer, (2) search only the current folder from which the search was initiated, or (3) perform the search based on the previously used scope.
- Dock Stacks, when viewed as a grid, allow viewing of a subfolder as a new stack, rather than launching a Finder window, in a manner similar to 'tunnelling'. When viewed as grids or lists, scroll-bars are provided to navigate folders with more items than the current screen resolution will accommodate, as the program does not scale the icons to show as many as possible the way it did in OS X 10.5.[29]
- The default gamma has been changed from 1.8 to 2.2 to better serve the color needs of digital content producers and consumers.[23]
- Windows can now be minimized directly onto their application's icon in the dock.[30]
- Faster PDF and JPEG icon refreshes.[31]
- When searching for a network, the AirPort menu-bar icon animates until it finds a network and shows network strength of available networks in the drop down menu.
- Prefixes for bytes are now used in strictly decimal meaning (as opposed to their binary meaning) when describing disk space, such that an indicated file size of 1 MB corresponds to 1 million bytes, as commonly used by hard disk manufacturers.[32]
- Snow Leopard shuts down and goes to sleep faster.[33]
New wallpapers[edit]
As with most upgrades of Mac OS X, new wallpapers are available. There are new wallpapers in the Nature (two of which are of snow leopards), Plants and Black and White sub-folders under the Apple folder. Furthermore, there are new Apple wallpaper sub-folders with multiple wallpapers:
- Art: Dancer on the Stage, Nighthawks, Poppies Blooming, Sunday Afternoon, Suprematism, The Great Wave, and Water Lilies.
- Patterns: Pinstripe and Saree.
New solid colors can be used as wallpapers as well. There is a new blue and gray, as well as a solid kelp which serves as the 'green wallpaper.' The default 'space nebula' wallpaper has been updated as well.
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Dropped features[edit]
- AppleTalk is no longer supported.[34]
- It is no longer possible to change an application's language using the Finder's 'Get Info' dialogue. While there are workarounds for some applications, others (such as Adobe After Effects CS4) will not be able to be run in a different language than the one installed[35] without using Terminal commands or third-party software.
- Creator codes, which are per-file metadata attributes that define, for a file that has a creator code, what application should open that file, regardless of its extension, have had their priority in the application selection process reduced.[36]
- Creating or updating a Hierarchical File System volume is no longer supported.
Developer technologies[edit]
64-bit architecture[edit]
Mac OS X Tiger added limited support for 64-bit applications on machines with 64-bit processors; Leopard extended the support for 64-bit applications to include applications using most of Mac OS X's libraries and frameworks.
In Snow Leopard, most built-in applications have been rebuilt to use the 64-bit x86-64architecture (excluding iTunes, Front Row, Grapher and DVD Player applications).[37] They will run in 32-bit mode on machines with 32-bit processors, and in 64-bit mode on machines with 64-bit processors.
In addition, the Mac OS X kernel has been rebuilt to run in 64-bit mode on some machines. On those machines, Snow Leopard supports up to 16 terabytes of RAM. Newer Xserve and Mac Pro machines will run a 64-bit kernel by default; newer iMac and MacBook Pro machines can run a 64-bit kernel, but will not do so by default.[38] Users wishing to use the 64-bit kernel on those machines must hold down the numbers 6 and 4 on the keyboard while booting to get the 64-bit kernel to load.[39][40] A change to the com.apple.Boot.plist will also enable users with compatible computers to permanently boot into 64-bit for those wishing to do so.
Stuart Harris, software product marketing manager at Apple Australia, said, 'For the most part, everything that they experience on the Mac, from the 64-bit point of view, the applications, the operating system, is all going to be 64-bit, but that at this stage there were very few things, such as device drivers, that required 64-bit mode at the kernel level'.[40]
With Mac OS X Snow Leopard only the following Apple computers run or are capable of running the 64-bit kernel:[41]
Product | Model identifier | K64 status on client version | K64 status on server version |
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Xserve early 2008 and later | Xserve2,1 and higher | Capable | Default |
Mac Pro early 2008 | MacPro3,1 | Capable | Default |
Mac Pro early 2009 | MacPro4,1 | Capable | Default |
Mac Pro mid-2010 | MacPro5,1 | Default | Default |
MacBook Pro early 2008 | MacBookPro4,1 | Capable | Capable |
MacBook Pro late 2008 | MacBookPro4,1 and 5,1 | Capable | Capable |
MacBook Pro early 2009 | MacBookPro5,2 | Capable | Capable |
MacBook Pro mid-2009 | MacBookPro5,3 and 5,4 and 5,5 | Capable | Capable |
MacBook Pro mid-2010 | MacBookPro6,1 and 6,2 and 7,1 | Capable | Capable |
MacBook Pro early 2011 | MacBookPro8,1 and 8,2 and 8,3 | Default | Default |
iMac early 2008 and later | iMac8,1 and higher | Capable | Capable |
Mac Mini mid-2010 | Macmini4,1 | Capable | Default |
^* Amit Singh has reported that the early 2009 Mac Mini and MacBook may be capable of running the 64-bit kernel; however, Apple has set these models to boot into the 32-bit kernel. With some tweaking, the Unibody MacBook can be set to boot the 64-bit kernel.[42]
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Grand Central Dispatch[edit]
Grand Central Dispatch uses the multiple processor cores now in every new Macintosh for more efficient performance. Due to the technical difficulties traditionally involved in making applications optimized for multicore CPUs, the majority of computer applications do not effectively use multiple processor cores.[43] As a result, processing power often goes unused. Grand Central Dispatch includes APIs to help programmers efficiently use these cores for parallel programming.
Grand Central Dispatch shifts thread handling focus to itself rather than leaving it to specific applications to distribute jobs evenly across cores and clears up unused memory created by inactive or old threads to achieve maximum performance. Apple is also releasing APIs for Grand Central Dispatch for developers to use in their applications and also to analyze specific blocks of code running on Grand Central Dispatch.[44]
A new C and Objective-C language feature named 'Blocks' facilitates creation of code that will easily optimize to take advantage of Grand Central Dispatch.[45][46][47]
OpenCL[edit]
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OpenCL (Open Computing Language) addresses the power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to leverage them in any application, and not just for graphics-intensive applications like 3D games. OpenCL automatically optimizes for the kind of graphics processor in the Mac, adjusting itself to the available processing power. OpenCL provides consistent numeric precision and accuracy, fixing a problem that has hampered GPU-based programming in the past.[48]
OpenCL includes a C-based programming language with a structure that is already familiar to Mac OS X programmers, who can use Xcode developer tools to adapt their programs to work with OpenCL. Only the most process intensive parts of the application need to be written in OpenCL C without affecting the rest of the code. OpenCL is an open standard that has been supported by AMD, Intel, and Nvidia; it is maintained by Khronos Group.[25]
It serves a similar purpose to Nvidia's C for CUDA and Microsoft's Direct3D 11 compute shaders.
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It only works with the following Mac GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce 320M, GT 330M, 9400M, 9600M GT, 8600M GT, GT 120, GT 130, GTX 285, 8800 GT, 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, FX 5600 and ATI Radeon HD 4670, HD 4850, HD 4870, HD 5670, HD 5750, HD 5770, HD 5870, HD 6490M, HD 6750M, HD 6770M, HD 6970M.[16] If the system does not possess one of these compatible GPUs, OpenCL code will instead execute on the system's CPU.[49]
CUPS[edit]
CUPS (the printing system used in many Unix-like operating systems) has been updated to version 1.4 which provides improved driver, networking, and Kerberos support along with performance improvements. CUPS 1.4 is also the first implementation of the Internet Printing Protocol version 2.1.[50]
Power management[edit]
Power management has been improved, with implementation of a new wake on demand feature supported on more recent Macintosh hardware.[51] Wake on demand takes advantage of the sleep proxy service implemented in AirPort and Time Capsule routers,[52] Reflex plus 4130. so that the computer can sleep while the router responds to mDNS queries. Should the request require the host computer to wake up, the router sends the necessary special wake-up-packet[53] to the sleeping computer.
Security[edit]
Apple strengthened Mac OS X by implementing stack protection, and sandboxing more Mac OS X components such as the H.264decoder in QuickTime and browser plug-ins as a separate process in Safari.[54] An anti-malware feature was also added to the system that alerts the user if malware is detected.[55] Mac OS X 10.6.8 added regular malware definition updates.[56]
Computer security researcher Charlie Miller claims that OS X Snow Leopard is more vulnerable to attack than Microsoft Windows for lacking full address space layout randomization (ASLR) since Mac OS X Leopard,[57] a technology that Microsoft started implementing in Windows Vista.[58]
The Safari web browser has received updates to version 6.0 in Lion and Mountain Lion, but not in Snow Leopard.[59]
Compatibility[edit]
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Snow Leopard breaks compatibility with several older versions of some applications, such as Parallels Desktop 3.0, versions of Aperture before 2.1.1, and versions of Keynote before 2.0.2, among other software.[60] Apple has also published a list of applications with known compatibility issues with Snow Leopard.[61]
Printer and scanner drivers used by previous versions of Mac OS X are not compatible with Snow Leopard and will be replaced during Snow Leopard installation. Since the initial release of Snow Leopard many manufacturers have provided compatible drivers that are available via Software Update.[62] If a native driver is not available Snow Leopard also includes CUPS and Gutenprint open source drivers that may provide limited functionality.
10.6.0 introduced a bug that frequently prevented DNS queries from returning IPv6 addresses.[63][64][65] This was resolved in 10.6.8.[66]
Reception[edit]
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At the WWDC in 2009, Apple stated that Snow Leopard features no new major visual changes.[67] Instead, the release focuses on refining the operating system to enable better performance.[67]
OSNews reported that Mac OS X Snow Leopard was well received by critics.[68][69]
Engadget reviewed Snow Leopard and pointed out that the price of Snow Leopard dropped from the $129 Apple charged for previous versions of Mac OS X to $29. Engadget's opinion was that this could be largely because most users would not see a noticeable change in the look and feel of the system.[70] However, most reviews commented on the large improvement in speed of the native Mac OS X applications Finder, iCal, Mail, etc.[70]
CNET editors gave it 4 stars out of 5, stating 'Intel Mac users will like Snow Leopard's smartly designed interface enhancements, and its Exchange support is a must-have (especially with Outlook for Mac on the way). With a ton of technological improvements, Snow Leopard is worth the $29 upgrade fee.'[71]
On October 21, 2009, SFGate blogger Yobie Benjamin wrote that the 'MacBook Pro that came preloaded with Snow Leopard kicks butt and is a screaming fast machine', but 'when I tried to upgrade one of my 'older' MacBooks, it was a fricking disaster from hell'. Apart from upgrading, Benjamin also tried a clean install. But he complained of slowness even after his clean install. He wrote, 'I ended up downgrading back to OSX 10.5.8' then he concluded by writing, 'I might try to do it again but it won't be till Apple releases at least 2 major fix updates. If you want to roll the dice and try, go ahead.. your upgrade might work, however, random installs not working is not good for me. Lesson learned --- I'll wait.'[72]
The single-user upgrade and Family Pack units of Snow Leopard ranked 1 and 2 respectively on Amazon.com's software bestseller charts when Apple announced it would release it within the week.[73]
Testmac.com highlighted other unexpected improvements including the release of a new version of Boot Camp, version 3.0, a cleaner, popup software update process and screen and video recording in the new QuickTime Player.[74]
The BBC reported that a bug in Mac OS X versions 10.6.0 and 10.6.1 which, in rare cases, caused loss of user account data after use of a previously existing guest account by users who had upgraded from a previous version of Mac OS X, received wide publicity.[75] The bug was fixed as of version 10.6.2.[76]
Release history[edit]
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Snow Leopard at WWDC on June 9, 2008,[77] and it was privately demonstrated to developers by Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Bertrand Serlet. On Monday, May 11, 2009, after build 10A354, Apple issued a code freeze on Snow Leopard's APIs.[78] The first public demonstration was given at WWDC 2009 by Serlet and Vice President of Mac OS Engineering, Craig Federighi.[77][79]
Version | Build[80] | Date | OS name | Notes | Download |
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10.6 | 10A432 | August 28, 2009 | Darwin 10.0 | Original retail DVD release | N/A |
10A433 | Server edition; Original retail DVD release | ||||
10.6.1 | 10B504 | September 10, 2009 | Darwin 10.1 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.1 Update | Mac OS X v10.6.1 Update |
10.6.2 | 10C540 | November 9, 2009 | Darwin 10.2 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update | Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update |
10.6.3 | 10D573 | March 29, 2010 | Darwin 10.3 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.3 Update | Mac OS X v10.6.3 Update |
10D575 | April 1, 2010 | Second retail DVD release | N/A | ||
10D578 | April 13, 2010 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.3 Update; v1.1 | Mac OS X v10.6.3 v1.1 Update (Combo) | ||
10.6.4 | 10F569 | June 15, 2010 | Darwin 10.4 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update | Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update |
10.6.5 | 10H574 | November 10, 2010 | Darwin 10.5 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.5 Update | Mac OS X v10.6.5 Update |
10.6.6 | 10J567 | January 6, 2011 | Darwin 10.6 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.6 Update | Mac OS X v10.6.6 Update |
10.6.7 | 10J869 | March 21, 2011 | Darwin 10.7 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.7 Update | Mac OS X v10.6.7 Update |
10J3250 | For the early 2011 Macbook Pro | Mac OS X v10.6.7 Update for early 2011 MacBook Pro | |||
10J4138 | May 4, 2011 | For the early 2011 Macbook Pro | MacBook Pro Software Update 1.4 | ||
10.6.8 | 10K540 | June 23, 2011 | Darwin 10.8 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.8 Update | Mac OS X v10.6.8 Update (Combo) |
10K549 | July 25, 2011 | About the Mac OS X v10.6.8 Update; v1.1 | Mac OS X v10.6.8 v1.1 Update (Combo) |
Mac OS X Server includes these features and other server-related features. Apple initially stated that Server would include ZFS support, but mention of this feature later disappeared from Apple's website and it was not included in the final release due to licensing issues.[81]
On January 27, 2016, Apple released an update for the Mac App Store on Mac OS X 10.6. The update is titled 'Mac App Store Update for OS X Snow Leopard'. The download is 3.5 MB.[8][82]
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External links[edit]
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard at Apple.com
- Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard at Apple.com
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard application compatibility list: a user-edited list of Mac applications that have been tested on Snow Leopard
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard review at Ars Technica
Preceded by Mac OS X 10.5 | Mac OS X 10.6 2009 | Succeeded by Mac OS X 10.7 |
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