When was 10.6 released

Faster to wake up and shut down. Your Mac wakes from sleep up to twice as quickly when you have screen locking enabled. And shutting down is up to 80 percent faster. More efficient file sharing. Multi-Touch gestures in older Mac models.

All Mac notebooks with Multi-Touch trackpads now support three- and four-finger gestures. A new technology called Grand Central Dispatch takes full advantage of multicore systems by making all of Mac OS X multicore aware and optimizing it for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors. Universal Access: Every Mac comes with built-in technologies designed to help people with disabilities experience it. Innovations in Snow Leopard advance accessibility even further.

But it does seem to hold true that if the update is around 1. Mac OS X It was slightly smaller than Kodiak as it didn't pack as much nerd into it - it is a consumer OS first and foremost - so Cheetah's disk-usage is MB.

Jaguar Not counting the MB of stuff on the Xcode disc, the Panther installer adds up to 1. The boxed edition of Ignoring the optional extras, the app and all the packages that make up the default Tiger installer add up to 1. The System you run when you boot the DVD is 1. If you add up the size of just the installers used to make up the default OS X - remember, it carries all the baggage needed for both PowerPC and Intel - it adds up to 2.

You'd think going Intel-only would free up a lot of space on the disc, but no, they've filled the once-free-space with even more extras, including the PowerPC emulator, Rosetta - including the hidden Boot Camp partition, it all adds up to a very full 7.

There are two releases, Benton: Wow, thanks much for the sizing info; I'll add it to the table shortly. As for build numbers, I thought about it once a few years ago, but decided that there's too much variability for my liking. For example, Apple will sometimes release hardware that gets a new build number of macOS, even though the version number is unchanged.

This post is mainly a fun diversion, and including all the build number info would turn it into more of a job :. I'm not sure I understand the question - size of what? The last updater? The full OS after the last updater? I don't know that latter, but the former is shown as 1.

I left it out on purpose, as my M1 MBP arrived with Did you buy one that came with Unlike previous versions of Mac OS X, the goals of Snow Leopard were improved performance, greater efficiency and the reduction of its overall memory footprint. Addition of new end-user features was not a primary consideration: its name was intended to signify its goal to be a refinement of its predecessor, Mac OS X Leopard. Much of the software in Mac OS X was extensively rewritten for this release in order to take advantage fully of modern Macintosh hardware.

New programming frameworks, such as OpenCL , were created, allowing software developers to use graphics cards in their applications. This is also the first Mac OS release since System 7. As a result of the low price, initial sales of Snow Leopard were significantly higher than that of its predecessors. For users that still need to run applications in Snow Leopard, it is possible to run it under virtualization on newer Macs with Parallels.