Snow Leopard Drops PowerPC Support
- June 11th, 2008 - 7.24 pm UTC
- Apple News, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, WWDC 2008
- Alex Brooks
When Mac OS X Snow Leopard was just a rumour it surfaced that the operating system could be built just for Intel hardware, and be the first version of Mac OS X to drop support for the ageing PowerPC processors.
Today LogicielMac confirms this with a screenshot of the minimum requirements to install the developers previews of Snow Leopard handed out at WWDC this week.
The requirements are as follows:
- An Intel Processor
- An internal, external, or shared DVD drive
- At least 512 MB of RAM
- Display connected to an Apple-supplied video card
- 9GB of disk space, or 12GB for developer tools
Snow Leopard is being touted as a performance, stability and security release and is expected to ship “within a year.”
Comments
Karl von L. 11th June 2008, 21.07 pm
Well, all this really proves is that the developer preview of Snow Leopard is Intel-only. It doesn’t guarantee what Apple’s plans for the final version are.
At least, that’s what I’m telling myself so I can remain optimistic.
les manheim IV 28th January 2009, 13.57 pm
Well, this proves 10xccsn and its soon arrival.
Congrat’s, Apple and Stevie Job’s on a “JOB” well done.