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Apple Previews Snow Leopard for September Release
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Apple's updated Technical Specifications page for Snow Leopard says that Leopard users will need a simple upgrade disk, but Tiger users will have to purchase a full Mac Box Set with Snow Leopard, iLife '09, and iWork '09. Pricing for the Tiger update wasn't discussed, but the current Leopard Mac Box Set costs $169. (Leopard costs $129 and both iLife '09 and iWork cost $79 when sold separately.) ...
Snow Leopard officially puts PowerPC Macs on endangered species list
Engadget —
... It was just a day short of a year ago that we first got a bad feeling Snow Leopard was going to be end of the road for the PowerPC crowd. Now we know the truth, with Apple confirming Mac OS X version 10.6 will require Intel processors, cutting the cord on that rich ...
Apple finalizes PowerPC divorce with OS upgrade
CNET News - Apple —
Apple, a company that's rarely namby-pamby about making technological changes, has put its foot down once again with its Snow Leopard upgrade to Mac OS X due in September.
When the new operating system arrives in September, it'll work only on Intel-based Macs. That means Mac OS X ...
Apple Euthanizes PowerPC Macs with Snow Leopard
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... site. Any Intel Mac should work, but for things like Grand Central Dispatch, for example, you’ll need a multi-processor machine. And if you’re holding off buying a Mac because you’re waiting for Snow Leopard in September, don’t bother. Apple is running its usual up-to-date program so you can upgrade any Mac bought today for just $10. This isn’t the bargain it usually is, though, as the full OS will be just $30.
Snow Leopard Tech Specs [Apple]
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OS 10.6: PowerPC officially left behind
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Now the writing is fully on the wall for PowerPC users. The official release of tech specs for Snow Leopard indicates that it is an Intel-only release, meaning that if you do want to go past Leopard, you'll have to upgrade. There are still a lot of PowerPC users out there, and they're still very good machines... but are owners of older Macs going to be satisfied without the latest OS? ...
OpenCL Supported Graphics Cards Leaves Some Intel Macs Behind
Mac|Life —
snow leopard landing page A perusal of the specs and features pages for the upcoming OS X Snow Leopard has revealed a lot of extra information that Apple neglected to mention thus far. For example, if you were looking to some of the speed boosting technology that Apple featured in the keynote with your Intel Mac, namely OpenCL and H.264 Video Acceleration, you could be out of luck. OpenCL is only supported by the following graphics cards: NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS, Geforce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, ATI ...
EVGA GeForce GTX 285 now available for compatible Mac Pros
Infinite Loop —
... the necessary cables are included in the box. "With the EVGA GTX 285 now available for the Mac Pro, consumers can take advantage of our incredible GeForce and CUDA technologies running natively in Mac OS X or in Microsoft Windows under BootCamp," said Ujesh Desai, general manager of GeForce GPU business at NVIDIA, in a statement. EVGA includes drivers for the card on an included CD, but note that Apple isn't currently listing OpenCL support for the card on the Snow Leopard spec page . Even so, users should see significant speed gains for gaming, 3D modeling and rendering, ...
OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7: The Final Countdown [Giz Explains]
Gizmodo —
... are engineered to gobble less of your hard drive than their predecessors. Snow Leopard promises to give you back 6GB of storage—cutting out all the code for PowerPC-based Macs helped a lot there. Microsoft isn't touting how much extra space you'll have with Windows 7 vs. Vista, but an earlier version of Windows 7 used about 6GB of space, and they've been thinking about ways to make drivers take up less space. If it says anything though, Snow Leopard requires 5GB of free disk space, while Windows 7 requires 16GB for the 32-bit OS and 20GB for ...
Preparing for 10.6 Snow Leopard: Graphics and processor requirements.
MacFixIt —
... key enhancements. Many people looking forward to these features may wonder if their machines meet the requirements for running the much-touted features of the new OS. Graphics and OpenCL One of the big features in Snow Leopard is the ability to tap into many more computing resources at once, and part of this is the inclusion of OpenCL, which allows the system to make use of the graphics processor for everyday tasks when it's not in use by other programs. According to the Leopard technical specifications page , this ability will require a computer with at least the following ...
Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard to offer more reliable disk ejection
MacDailyNews —
... . Snow Leopard requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM and is designed to run on any Mac computer with an Intel processor. Full system requirements can be found here . More info about Mac OS X Snow Leopard's features and refinements ...
The Real Cost of Upgrading to Mac OS X Snow Leopard [Prof. Dealzmodo]
Gizmodo —
... . Again, everything starts with meeting the minimum system requirements, which in this case means bye-bye, Power PC—you gotta have an Intel chipset: ...
More signs pointing to an early Snow Leopard launch
Infinite Loop —
... The product appeared on Apple's site long enough to get cached in Google's search results, revealing the product number to be MC209Z/A. The Mac Box Set would include Mac OS X 10.6, iLife '09, and iWork '09. Apple has stated that users running a version of Mac OS X prior to 10.5 would have to buy the $169 Box Set to upgrade to Snow Leopard. ...
Apple to release Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28
AppleInsider —
... from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller between June 8, 2009 and the end of the program on December 26, 2009, for a product plus shipping and handling fee of $9.95 (US). Users must request their Up-to-Date upgrade within 90 days of purchase or by December 26, 2009, whichever comes first. For more information please visit . Snow Leopard requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM and is designed to run on any Mac computer with an Intel processor. Full system requirements can be found at www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html .
Apple makes it official: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard ships on August 28
MacDailyNews —
... . Snow Leopard requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM and is designed to run on any Mac computer with an Intel processor. Full system requirements can be found at www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html . *Testing conducted by Apple in August 2009 comparing prerelease Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard with shipping Mac OS X v10.5.8 Leopard on a shipping 2.0 GHz MacBook system and a shipping 2.66 GHz iMac system, both configured with 2GB of RAM. Performance will vary based on system configuration, network, file sizes, data sets and other factors. **Testing conducted by Apple in August 2009 ...
Snow Leopard officially official: August 28th
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... . Snow Leopard requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM and is designed to run on any Mac computer with an Intel processor. Full system requirements can be found at www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html. ...
Snow Leopard to Be Released August 28
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Technical Requirements -- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard requires an Intel-based Mac with at least 1 GB of RAM and 5 GB of available disk space. It also requires a DVD drive for installation. Certain features require additional technical specifications; see Apple's site for details. ...
Snow Leopard system requirements
MacFixIt —
... Snow Leopard's availability, and have links to it from their website's home page. Since this announcement, there have been many inquiries about whether or not a certain system will run the new operating system. The basic requirements for Snow Leopard are as follows: An Apple computer with an Intel Processor 1GB of Memory (RAM) 5GB of hard drive space (Storage) DVD drive for installation The full set of system requirements can be found at Apple's website at the following page: http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html . While the DVD drive is mentioned, it is not actually ...
Last-minute user questions about Snow Leopard, part 1
MacFixIt —
... do not count on it. If you are wondering about this and wish to try, go ahead and purchase the $29 upgrade if you can, and if it does not work then you can legitimately purchase a discounted version of Leopard to install and then upgrade to Snow Leopard with the previously purchased $29 upgrade DVD. Will my graphics processor support OpenCL and H.264? People with relatively new graphics processors have wondered if their system will support OpenCL or H.264. For now, according to the Snow Leopard tech specs page Apple has the following graphics chips supported for OpenCL: ...
Confirmed: $29 Snow Leopard disc updates ALL Intel Macs
Apple Forums & iPhone Forums, Mods, Hacks, News, Themes, Downloads, and more! | ModMyi.com - 4,711,751,911 —
... It was obviously merely an helpful suggestion from Apple that Tiger users should purchase the box set - which includes the upgrade, iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, a corkscrew, a magnifying glass, novelty underwear and Keynote - so hopefully we'll see broader adoption of the upgrade across the entire Intel product range. ...
10 Reasons NOT to Upgrade to Snow Leopard Right Away
Mac|Life —
... performance gains aren’t going to manifest until developers fine-tune their applications to take advantage of Grand Central Dispatch, which enhances the way that software takes advantage of multiple processing cores, and OpenCL, which grabs power from your Mac’s graphics processing unit. For the full-on Snow Leopard experience, give programmers a few months to catch up. 3: Your Mac can’t handle Snow Leopard: 32-bit Intel Macs, machines with graphics cards that are more than a couple of years old, even Macs that were released more than two years ago will not magically turn ...
10.6: Snow Leopard DVD is full OS X install disc
MacOSXHints.com —
Despite Apple's suggestion on the Snow Leopard specs page that, when going from Tiger 10.4.x to Snow Leopard, you should buy the box set... ...
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