If you follow these steps, everything that's currently on your computer will be erased, and a new version of Snow Leopard installed. Make sure you've backed up your documents, music, pictures, movies, and other personal files before you proceed.
This is document akav in the Knowledge Base. Last modified on As a result, it remained a highly desirable version of OS X for owners of Macs. Probably not successfully. However, there's much more you should know before you make a final decision. Before you can decide whether you should upgrade to Snow Leopard, you need to know which model of Mac and processor you have. To find out, use Apple's System Profiler. From the Apple menu, select About This Mac.
In the System Profiler window that opens, select the Hardware category from the list on the left. Only the word Hardware should be selected; none of the Hardware subcategories should be selected.
Make a note of the following information:. Even if your Mac meets the minimum requirements for running Snow Leopard, it may not be able to use all the new features included in Snow Leopard. The one thing that makes the most difference in how well Snow Leopard performs on your Mac is whether your Mac supports bit architecture, which is necessary to run the Grand Central Dispatch technology built into Snow Leopard.
Core Solo and Core Duo both use bit Intel processors. Any other Intel processor that Apple has used has the full bit architecture.
In addition to fully supporting Snow Leopard, the bit processor architecture also provides direct benefits, including speed, larger RAM space, and better security. Grand Central Dispatch allows Snow Leopard to divvy up processes across multiple processors or processor cores , which significantly improves the performance of your Mac. To take advantage of this technology, your Mac must have multiple processors or processor cores.
You located how many processors or processor cores your Mac has in System Profiler and made a note of the Number of Processors and Total Number of Cores. The more, the better. Even if your Mac can't run in bit mode and use Grand Central Dispatch, Snow Leopard still provides a modest performance boost because it's optimized for the Intel architecture and has all the old legacy code stripped out of it.
OpenCL is one of the features built into Snow Leopard. In essence, OpenCL allows applications to take advantage of a graphics chip's processor as if it were another processor core in the Mac. Sep 8, AM. Sep 8, AM in response to seventy one In response to seventy one. I take it from you asking how to "upgrade" to In summary, you can either get an external DVD drive as Niel stated, or you can use Remote Disk if you have another computer.
Note that I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link, because some pages on the site contain small banner ads. You may be able to update to a later version, but you would need Snow Leopard as an intermediate step regardless. Here are the requirements for the latest version Sierra In that case, you cannot run Snow Leopard except in virtualization as Niel mentioned. Snow Leopard is six versions older than Sierra so I don't know what you mean by "upgrading" to Snow Leopard.
My girlfriend has been after me to upgrade the system. Any help would be appreciated. Anywhere I can download it? Download Mac OS X Need Any hints? Pretty sure I stopped paying for upgrades after snow leopard. There is still life for your old Macs yet.
Still on Kept getting error msgs. Gave up. I have too many convenient apps that I like to upgrade and there is nothing I need in the newer OSs. Just log in to your developer account. As a developer, I run Snow Leopard on one partition and Yosemite on another. I only use Yosemite for development and testing. Snow Leopard is my daily OS. The problem w older systems is a computer will not install system software older than it was produced.
One must use Virtual Ware on a new machine or use an old machine. Is it true No more updates for Snow Leopard beyond Just install Firefox and Thunderbird for you browser and email clients.
Thank you sir. I just told a woman the same thing today. Glad it was validated by seeing your comment. Gmail and Youtube are telling people their Snow Leopard version of Safari is outdated. I also think people are screwing up their Safari by downloading the Safari update through the quick links the Youtube page provides to update your browser. I downloaded and installed the You just have to trawl through a lot of pages to find it, but there was no need for me to be a developer to get it.
If you install from a disc made from You have to download and install first the I found this out recently reviving a PowerBook G4 with a replacement hard drive.
Leopard retail DVD I have. Neither Software Update nor my Ah the perks of being a developer. Snow Leopard was such a great release and so stable. This makes me want to try it again on a much newer Mac, perhaps it would play well on new hardware, anyone try this? Apple appears to have pulled this—I have memberships in both Mac and iOS developer programs and these are not available to me. Which is really too bad because I do need Just go to the site then try downloading.
Hello, I can confirm this works. I was just able to start downloading HTH, David.
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