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DESCRIPTION
Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. To create Snow Leopard, Apple engineers refined 90 percent of the more than 1,000 projects that make up Mac OS X. Users will notice refinements including a more responsive Finder; Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup; a Dock with Expose integration; QuickTime X with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share video; and a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50 percent faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins. Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up to 7GB of drive space once installed. For the first time, system applications including Finder, Mail, iCal, iChat and Safari are 64-bit and Snow Leopards support for 64-bit processors makes use of large amounts of RAM, increases performance and improves security while remaining compatible with 32-bit applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) provides a revolutionary new way for software developers to write applications that take advantage of multicore processors. OpenCL, a C-based open standard, allows developers to tap the incredible power of the graphics processing unit for tasks that go beyond graphics.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 10.6.4: - improves compatibility with some Braille displays
- resolves an issue that causes the keyboard or trackpad to become unresponsive
- resolves an issue that may prevent some Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications from opening
- addresses issues copying, renaming, or deleting files on SMB file servers
improves reliability of VPN connections
- resolves a playback issue in DVD Player when using Good Quality deinterlacing
- resolves an issue editing photos with iPhoto or Aperture in full screen view
- resolves an issue with Parental Controls Time Limits for Open Directory or Active Directory users
- resolves a display sleep issue with MacBook Pro (Early 2010) computers
resolves an issue with MacBook Pro (Early 2010) computers in which the right speaker may sound louder than the left speaker
- includes Safari 5.0; for more information about Safari 5.0, see this webpage
- adds tethered shooting support for additional digital camera models
- addresses IPTC metadata compatibility issues
- RAW image compatibility for additional digital cameras
- resolves an issue with using third-party USB web cameras
- resolves an issue with noise when using some third-party FireWire audio devices
- resolves pairing issues with Apple remotes
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.6.3 or later.
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| Developer: | Apple |
| Downloads: | 151,445 |
| - Version d/l: | 4,940 |
| Utilities: | System |
| License: | Updater |
| Date: | 15 Jun 2010 |
| Platform: | Intel |
| Price: | $25.00 |
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| Apple Mac OS X User Reviews (865 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 22 2010 |
AN.ONYMOUS Still no correction of the keyboard's lighting (refuse to light at night and blocks the F6 use on the MacBook Pros); although there are links on the Internet complaining about this irritating problem.
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| Jun 22 2010 |
CERNIUK Mail application still pigs out the processor and still hangs up for a long time when processing mail. Makes my laptop get rather hot and eats up the battery. Deleting caches, enclosures, etc… nothing helps.
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| Jun 16 2010 |
ORION MK. V So far, ZERO problem. I used the combo updater and made sure to update my Flash plug-in beforehand then run my MacUpdate Desktop afterwards to update any 3rd party stuff.
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 | Jun 16 2010 |
HEYMINI OK so this still dosent fix the graphics issues caused by 10.6.x I am seriously getting hacked of with Apples seeming inability to produce graphic card drivers which can keep pace with there Windows counterparts (yeah i know the drivers are written by the card maufacturers but surely to Apples specs) So at the moment i have a hideously expensive Quadro FX card which displays random black glitches in 10.6 but runs fine in 10.5 Come on Apple pull your finger out.
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| Jun 16 2010 |
ORION MK. V Can't argue. Mac drivers for graphics cards seems rather underwhelming, at least in the area of WINE game applications. I've basically stopped buying any non-native mac games, as the performance is so lacking and just use my PS3 for gaming.
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| Jun 16 2010 |
MEEGO Wasn't this update supposed to improve graphics performance, or at least fix the regression created by 10.6.3 ? Can someone provide feedback on this? Have you seen improvements?
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 | Jun 15 2010 |
OYAC The thing Apple broke with the 10.6.3 Update is still broken: can't export movies with chapters using QuicktimePlayer's function "Save for Web" (no files are produced, no error messages available). So, can anyone tell me how I'm supposed to make a iPhone-Version of my podcast-movies without QuickTimePlayer and with chapters?
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| Jun 15 2010 |
PSEUDO TASUKI Does anyone have a list of the cameras 10.6.4 added tethering support for?
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 | Jun 16 2010 |
OZEAN Here is the updated list: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4176?viewlocale=en_US
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| Jun 16 2010 |
PSEUDO TASUKI Excellent! Looks like Canon finally let them know how to tether recent cameras (including mine). Thank you for the link.
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| Jun 15 2010 |
FYREFLYE Lots of crashes after installing this using System Preferences Update. Most are attributable to the FlashPlayer plug in. And I couldn't open the Extensions section of Safari Preferences without causing a crash. I've removed the FlashPlayer plug in, which seems to have stopped the crashing, but most sites keep telling me they need it. Many reports went to Apple; let's hope they're on the ball.
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| Jun 16 2010 |
OZEAN 10.6.4 includes an old version of Adobe’s Flash Player so you should install the most recent one instead. (That is, if you want to have Flash installed at all.) If you did install the most recent Flash version (10.1.x) *before* the update to 10.6.4 then luckily Apple’s updater is clever enough to keep the 10.1 version that you installed. This was at least the case for me when I installed using the combo updater.
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| Jun 16 2010 |
FYREFLYE Thanks for your valuable input. I did have the latest 10.1 installed before the crash, but removing it, installing another one, and restarting seems to have fixed my problem.
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| Jun 15 2010 |
WEAZTEK DragThing 5.9.6 works.
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| Jun 15 2010 |
MTCOBRA Let’s hope all your correspondence on MAIL is caught up before you install this. Many cool mail add-on’s suddenly cease to work, and you’re told to contact the vendor’s of them to fix their problem. In my case: Rocketbox, Letter Opener, Letterbox, DockStar, WideMail, and Herald. Also I’ve lost the most important “column” in MAIL: Subject Maybe everything will sort itself out later, but for now, it’s back to a lot of work to restore the simple life I had before this upgrade.
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| Jun 15 2010 |
JTHEISS I already miss Letterbox. Apple: One likes to view data as *columns* on a widescreen display.
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| Jun 15 2010 |
MTCOBRA So far, Letter Opener and Herald have responded with updates to deal with this. Keep ‘em coming! (and THANKS!)
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