
Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard.
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, just purchase Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard and follow the simple installation instructions.
Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set, which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard; iLife ’09, with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork ’09, Apple’s productivity suite for home and office including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
Snow Leopard comes with the basic applications, utilities and key technologies :
- Address Book
- Automator
- Calculator
- Chess
- Dashboard
- Dictionary
- DVD Player
- Font Book
- Front Row
- iCal
- iChat
- Image Capture
- iSync (supported devices)
- iTunes
- Photo Booth
- Preview
- QuickTime Player
- Safari
- Stickies
- System Preferences
- TextEdit
- Time Machine
- Activity Monitor
- AirPort Utility
- Audio MIDI Setup
- Bluetooth File Exchange
- Boot Camp Assistant
- ColorSync Utility
- Console
- DigitalColor Meter
- Disk Utility
- Exposé
- Grab
- Grapher
- Java Preferences
- Keychain Access
- Migration Assistant
- Network Utility
- Podcast Capture
- RAID Utility
- Script Editor
- Script Utility
- Setup Assistant
- Spaces
- System Profiler
- Terminal
- VoiceOver Utility
- X11
- AppleScript
- Aqua
- Bonjour
- CDSA security architecture
- Cocoa, Carbon, and Java
- ColorSync
- Core Animation
- Core Audio
- Core Image
- Core Video
- Grand Central Dispatch
- H.264
- Inkwell
- OpenCL
- OpenGL
- Quartz Extreme
- QuickTime X
- 64-bit computing
- Sync
- Unicode 5.1
- Universal Access
- UNIX
- USB and FireWire peripheral support
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