Technical Specifications

General requirements:

  • A Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5 or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or better) processor
Minimum system requirements
 
  • 512MB memory
  • DVD drive for installation
  • 9GB of free disk space
  • Some features require a compatible Internet service provider, fees may apply.
  • Some features require Apple’s .Mac service, fees apply.

Feature specific requirements:

Time Machine

Time Machine requires an additional hard drive (sold separately).

Photo Booth requires an iSight camera (built-in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera or FireWire DV camcorder; and an Intel or PowerPC G5 processor. Photo Booth Backdrop effects require an Intel Core Duo or faster processor. Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure and white balance.

Boot Camp requires a Mac with an Intel processor and Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista (sold separately).

Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
 

Screen sharing in iChat and in the Finder requires a 128-Kbps Internet connection (300-Kbps recommended).

Apple Remote

Front Row requires a Mac with built-in IR and an Apple Remote.

DVD Player requires a 1.6GHz processor or better for improved de-interlacing

iChat requirements:

  • Audio chats require a microphone and a 56 kbps Internet connection;
  • Video chats require an iSight camera (built-in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera or FireWire DV camcorder, and 128 kbps upstream and downstream Internet connection.
  • Photo Booth and Backdrop effects require an Intel Core Duo or faster processor.
  • Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure and white balance.
  • Some iChat features enjoy better performance and quality with higher system capabilities.
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Developer tools require 1GB memory and an additional 3GB of free disk space.

 

What’s in the Box:

Mac OSX Leopard Box
 
  • Installation DVD
  • Welcome to Mac OS X Leopard User’s Guide
  • Apple stickers

 

Applications:

  • Address Book
  • Automator
  • Calculator
  • Chess
  • Dashboard
  • Dictionary
  • DVD Player
  • Exposé
  • Font Book
  • Front Row
  • iCal
  • iChat
  • Image Capture
  • iSync (Supported Devices)
  • iTunes
  • Mail
  • Photo Booth
  • Preview
  • QuickTime Player
  • Safari
  • Spaces
  • Stickies
  • System Preferences
  • TextEdit
  • Time Machine

 

Utilities:

  • Activity Monitor
  • AirPort Utility
  • Audio MIDI Setup
  • Boot Camp Assistant
  • Bluetooth File Exchange
  • ColorSync Utility
  • Console
  • Digital Color Meter
  • Directory
  • Directory Utility
  • Disk Utility
  • Grab
  • Grapher
  • Keychain Access
  • Migration Assistant
  • Network Utility
  • ODBC Administrator
  • Podcast Capture
  • RAID Utility
  • Setup Assistant
  • System Profiler
  • Terminal
  • VoiceOver Utility
  • X11

 

Key Technologies:

  • AppleScript
  • Aqua
  • Bonjour
  • CDSA security architecture
  • Cocoa, Carbon and Java
  • ColorSync
  • Core Animation
  • Core Audio
  • Core Image
  • Core Video
  • H.264
  • Inkwell
  • OpenGL
  • PDF
  • Quartz Extreme
  • QuickTime 7
  • 64-bit computing
  • Sync
  • Unicode 4
  • Universal Access
  • UNIX
  • USB and FireWire peripheral support
  • Xgrid

 

Development:

  • Xcode 3 IDE with Interface Builder 3
  • Instruments 
  • Dashcode 
  • AppleScript Studio
  • Automator 2
  • Shark
  • GCC compiler and toolset (original project by FSF.org)
  • DTrace (original project by Sun)
  • Complete Java JDK, including javac, javadoc, ANT and Maen tools
  • Apache web server
  • AppleScript
  • Ruby and the Ruby on Rails frameworks
  • Python
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • SQLite

 

Languages:

  • English
  • Japanese
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Danish
  • Norwegian
  • Finnish
  • Traditional
  • Chinese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Korean
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Russian
  • Polish
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