Apple has again started selling Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, which was discontinued with the arrival of Mountain Lion this summer. But now society Apple has put its best operating system back on the menu and is available on Apple.cz for a price of CZK 399, i.e. roughly €16. Unfortunately Apple has included Snow Leopard again in the offer and customers once again have the option to buy the latest boxed version of the operating system from the company Apple, but the company itself is pushing more and more for customers to switch to newer versions of OS X.
Snow Leopard, which is currently in version 10.6.8, no longer has support for the latest applications from Applu and even some hardware. However, Snow Leopard is required for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users, who will gain access to Mac App Store and can update to Lion or Mountain Lion. The biggest change to the operating system was in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, which I still use today. Many users complained that Mac OS X 10.6 basically did not bring any visible changes. It is true that there were very few of them. Apple because he concentrated on cleaning up the source codes of the system itself so that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and, most recently, Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion could build on them. So the changes took place below the surface and there were an incredible amount of them.
Apple rewritten Finder in Cocoa, brought the removal of thousands of lines of source code and offered the cleanest operating system in its history. Personally, I truly consider Snow Leopard to be the cleanest, simplest and also the fastest operating system in the history of Mac OS X. Basically, all the changes that Lion and Mountain Lion bring are already an extension of the clean Snow Leopard. However, the biggest change for users was support only for computers with Intel processors. Apple stopped supporting PowerMac computers with Snow Leopard.
I have a question, if I buy this version, is there any possibility to record it on a classic computer? Or it just goes to apple computers? Thank you
It also works on a "normal" PC, but only if you comply with certain HW conditions... There's a lot on the net about it... I think it's called HACKINTOSH
Morki: Only for machines from Applu
Of course it won't work on PC. It's only on MACs
rear..len apple..:)
under certain conditions it is possible, but it does not make much sense to buy it, because it will be illegal in any case (Apple the license does not allow OSX to run on anything other than theirs)... so if a person already wants a Hackintosh, it is easier to download a ready-made patched installation medium
That first paragraph is a joy to read :D
Jaroslav: yes
cat: no, just FYI Hackintosh is based on legally purchased copies iOS...
(why can't you put JB on new things? apple? why can it be put on the old one? that the competition? :), why apple won't it improve the functions of eg: iPhone? frogs nestspent billions on appstore?)
@peto: It will run on PC if you know how... ;)
@kocour: I think using a patched version of OSX downloaded from God knows where is the worse one variano… Prorunning LEGALLY PURCHASED AND UNMODIFIED OSX on non-Apple the hardware is indeed in the "grey zone", but realistically unassailable, as long as I do not resell or distribute PCs installed in this way as replacements Apple computers (I'm not harming anyone - not even Apple No ;)). To install UNMODIFIED OSX from original media, I only need PC hardware selected according to certain rules and an OpenSource bootloader. If this is possible, no one can beat me, because apart from the debatable restriction on Apple-branded hardware (contrary to the more general EULA) I am not violating anything else, because OSX is not protected against this procedure by any SW or HW protection mechanism that I would have to remove or bypass.
Question for the experienced: if I run on Lion (and I also have backups Time machine only from Lion) will I be able to extract data and programs from backups after downgrading the system to Snow Leopard?
Hackintosh can't really be considered "black" when using a purchased OS, it's a "gray zone". You will probably run afoul of the EULA, but its legal binding is close to zero, etc.
Rather, it is up for discussion whether it is even worth the effort to make it work properly, so it cannot be done cheaply, and moreover, it is not completely without problems either. I wrote something about it on http://blog.fotozona.cz/2012/11/os-x-pocitat-bez-applu-dil-1.html – a conclusion in the style of "it works, but I wouldn't talk about any ecstasy from the result"...
I'm not (unfortunately) a lawyer, but I'd say that it's probably just as legal as running shareware like Total Commander or if we're on a Mac, we need Sublime Text for longer than 30 days and think that if I reinstall it every month, I've complied with the license ;-) ... a lot of people do it that way, but it's certainly not legal
I think Apple I will let it be mainly because the next conversion of people from Hackintosh to their hardware will probably be big
@thr: It's definitely worth it. The described problems with Sleep mode etc. don't have to be solved at all with the right choice of hardware. Moreover, the current generation of Intel chipsets and UEFI BIOS made everything much simpler. I agree that an "alternative Mac" is definitely worth it today if I'm building a more powerful machine for working with graphics, photos, video, etc. Pro for regular work, e.g. Mac Mini. But if I need a machine like Mac Pro, I will build a PC station with comparable performance for 1/3 to 1/4 of its price. I see other positives in the fact that it is ME who decides what I will put in my workstation (processors, memory, graphics cards, ...) and even if Apple goes crazy and starts to focus only on toys with iOS, or if they abandon the Intel platform, I will still be left with universal PC hardware on which I can run it just fine Windows, Linux, Solaris, … Well don't buy it… ;)