Snow Leopard
Macintosh Recovery - Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.6, code named “Snow Leopard” is an operating system developed by Apple to succeed version 10.5 of its Mac OS X. Snow Leopard was announced on 8 June 2008 and is scheduled to start shipping in September 2009 with an upgrade available to existing Leopard users for $29.
Snow Leopard update will focus on improving performance and efficiency as well as reducing overall memory footprint. It will not support the PowerPC architecture as it is intended to support Apple’s current line of Intel-based products. Hence it does not support PowerPC-based Mac’s such as such as Power Macs, PowerBooks, iBooks, and iMacs and Mac minis.
System requirements include: Mac computer with an Intel processor (IA32 processors such as “Core Solo” and “Core Duo” will be limited to 32-bit; later x86-64 architecture processors will be able to operate in 64-bit mode); 1GB of RAM memory; 5GB of free disk space; DVD drive for installation.
For some specific applications such as QuickTime H.264 hardware acceleration support and OpenCL, a supported GPU processor is required (Nvidia 8600M GT or greater).
In the new version of Snow Leopard, Apple has included Stacks that allow viewing a subfolder without launching a Finder. Stacks are also provided with scroll-bars for folders with many files. Mac OS X includes out-of-the-box support for connecting to Microsoft Exchange 2007 servers for access through Mail, Address Book and iCal, thus making the Macs to be the first computers to be bundled with Exchange support.
Additional features include 64-bit Addressing, Grand Central Dispatch, Open Computing Language (OpenCL), QuickTime X, and Common Unix Printing System (CUPS).
