Official: Mac OS X Snow Leopard doesn't support PowerPC Macs
By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 02:00 PM EST
Documentation included with copies of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
distributed during Apple's developer conference this week confirm
that the next-generation operating system does not presently support
Macs with PowerPC processors.
LogicielMac.com has published a screen capture of the PDF-based
requirements document included on the Snow Leopard disc that provides
a rundown of the system's requirements.
The documentation states that in order to install Snow Leopard,
developers must have a Mac computer with "an Intel processor" and at
least 512MB of RAM, though additional memory is recommended for
development purposes.
The findings confirm an AppleInsider report from last September,
which cited people familiar with the ongoing development of Leopard
as saying that Mac OS X 10.6 would in all likelihood exclude support
for PowerPC processors.
According to the Snow Leopard documentation, the new system will also
require an Apple-supplied video card, 9GB of hard disk space, and
either an internal, external or shared DVD drive.
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