(Interestingly, on a Snow Leopard Mac upgraded to Lion, the Print & Scan preference pane alerted me to updated drivers, instructing me to run Software Update to download the new software.). Snow Leopard is the code name for the operating system Mac OS X version 10.6 developed by Apple. Its predecessor was Mac OS X v10.5, code-named Leopard.Apple's CEO Steve Jobs first announced Snow Leopard at WWDC on June 8, 2008. Snow Leopard shipped on August 28, 20092 and in the USA, an upgrade will be available for existing Intel-based Macintosh computers for $29 (£25/€29/￥3300),. 120 thoughts on “Mac OS X Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard: Download BootCamp Drivers” Comments navigation. George says: 27th November 2012 at 1:09 pm. How do I get the boot camp drivers for Windows XP? I have an older mac 5,2 but do not want to upgrade. Cannot find my old DVDs and had to reinstall XP on the other partition.

Apple Snow Leopard Os

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is renowned for its simplicity, its reliability, and its ease of use. So when it came to designing Snow Leopard, Apple engineers had a single goal: to make a great thing even better. They searched for areas to refine, further simplify, and speed up — from little things like ejecting external drives to big things like installing the OS. In many cases, they elevated great to amazing. Here are just a few examples of how your Mac experience was fine-tuned.

Features

• 64 Bit
  64-bit computing used to be the province of scientists and engineers, but now this generational shift in computing gives all users the tools to apply the power of 64-bit to speed up everything from everyday applications to the most demanding scientific computations. Although Mac OS X is already 64-bit capable in many ways, Snow Leopard takes the next big step by rewriting nearly all system applications in 64-bit code¹ and by enabling the Mac to address massive amounts of memory. Now Mac OS X is faster, more secure, and completely ready for the future.
• Grand Central Dispatch
  More cores, not faster clock speeds, drive performance increases in today’s processors. Grand Central Dispatch takes full advantage by making all of Mac OS X multicore aware and optimizing it for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors. Grand Central Dispatch also makes it much easier for developers to create programs that squeeze every last drop of power from multicore systems.
• Open CL
  With graphics processors surpassing speeds of a trillion operations per second, they’re capable of considerably more than just drawing pictures. OpenCL in Snow Leopard is a technology that makes it possible for developers to tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently in the graphics processor and use it for any application.
• QuickTime X
  Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a major leap forward that advances modern media and Internet standards. QuickTime X includes a brand-new player application, offers optimized support for modern codecs, and delivers more efficient media playback, making it ideal for any application that needs to play media content.
• Faster, more powerful Safari.
  Safari renders web pages at high speed and delivers a range of new features, including full history search, smart address and search fields, an innovative way to display your top sites, industry-leading support for web standards, and more.
  With Snow Leopard, Safari delivers up to 50 percent faster JavaScript performance thanks to its 64-bit support.6 In addition, Safari is even more resistant to crashes. It turns out that the number one cause of crashes in Mac OS X is browser plug-ins. So Apple engineers redesigned Safari to make plug-ins run separately. If a plug-in crashes on a web page, Safari will keep running.
• Out of the Box Support for Microsoft Exchange
  With Snow Leopard, the Mac is the only computer with built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. So you can use your Mac — with all the features and applications you love — at home and at work and have all your messages, meetings, and contacts in one place.

General requirements

Snow Leopard Dvd

• Mac computer with an Intel processor
• 1GB of memory
• 5GB of available disk space
• DVD drive for installation
• Some features require a compatible Internet service provider
• Some features require Apple’s MobileMe service