This is also the first Mac OS release since System 7.1.1 that does not support Macs using PowerPC processors, as Apple now intends to focus on its current line of Intel-based products. New programming frameworks, such as OpenCL, were created, allowing software developers to use graphics cards in their applications. Much of the software in Mac OS X was extensively rewritten for this release in order to take advantage fully of modern Macintosh hardware. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard brings improvements in performance, greater efficiency, and the reduction of its overall memory footprint. This software gets the last update (10.6.8) on Jand later has been replaced by a newer version of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
The system has been released on August 28, 2009, and was available for $29 and in the family pack for $49 or was preinstalled on currently sold computers. The Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is an operating system that was designed, developed, and sold by Apple from 2009 to 2011 alongside Apple’s personal computers.
