Can I use snow leopard on my intel quad core pc

Fed up with Microsoft however don't really want to junk the PC. Can I install snow leopard on this PC? Is there anything else that I need? I am not a teccy

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Can I install snow leopard on this PC?
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Can I use Snow Leopard?

I have an iMac G5 (1.8 GHz PowerPC G5), currently running OS v 10.5.8. From what I've read in these forums, this model is not Intel-based. Does that mean I can't use Snow Leopard? I'm not especially tech-savvy, and don't know geek-speak, so I'd appreciate simple answers! Thanks for any advice you may have.

10.5 is still receiving security updates, and that will run on your G5.
Considering Apple hasn't sold G5s since 2006, I'd think that's fairly good for a machine that is already out of AppleCare coverage, even if AppleCare was purchased. As long as your machine does what you need, you should have no reason not to run it. There is a large market for used and refurbished machines, that frequently can do things newer machines can not.
For instance your G5 can run Classic if 10.4.11 or earlier is installed on it.
Your G5 can run PowerPC games that have specific graphic drivers only found on your G5. And there are some older versions of Photoshop best optimized for G5s that don't run as well on Intel Macs. There are also some people who run Macs that are twenty or more years old, because it does what they need. So don't feel bad being left out of the Snow Leopard path.

If you lost your install CD's for an iMac7,1. Can you use Snow Leopard to reboot/install?

If you lost your install CD's for an iMac7,1. Can you use Snow Leopard to reboot/install?

Best answer; see AnaMusic above.
Will SL do? Yes, provided you use the SL retail disc. A grey disc from another Mac will not work.
A few considerations -
Be warned that printer drivers, and scanner drivers in particular will almost certainly need updating for SL. That could be a problem if the printer or scanner is more than a couple of years old.
Many third party applications (and some Apple ones) may need updates for SL (Adobe particularly), so check with the vendors for compatability before you upgrade.
You'll need Rosetta to run PPC apps like Appleworks and many MS Office or Adobe versions. Ensure you select it from the 'optional installations' when installing SL.
Note also that any bundled applications that came with your Tiger original discs (iLife in particular) are not included on retail OS versions.

Can I use snow leopard on a core duo

not core 2 duo ..... just a core duo the first intel macbook pro 2.0 ghz
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro 15"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP11.0055.B08
SMC Version: 1.2f10
Serial Number:
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
thank you Jim

can I use snow leopard on a core duo
Yes. It requires 1GB or more RAM.
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HT1544 Can I install snow leopard in a Intel Core i5 dual core, 2.5 GHz Mac mini?

I whant to install Snow leopard in a Intel Core i5 dual core de 2.5 GHz Mac Mini, is there any problem to do it?

Not in Minis after 2010.

Can you use Snow Leopard Server with Timewarner Road runner for file sharin

I have Time Warner Roadrunner service for internet. I have there fastest package. they said it has a dynamic ip address. If you are using Snow Leopard Server and I want todo File sharing upload and downloads to my Macpro do I have to have a static ip address or is there a way around this. The Static ip address accounts are expensive
Also from your experience. if I have 12 people uploading and downloading files willt his bring my browsing in safari to a crawl?
thanks

You need to first check with your provider to see if that service is even allowed (often it is not). You may have to subscribe to a commercial or small business service to set up an FTP or other file sharing server.
Actual performance depends upon what your upload capacity is, and how much of that is being used by the total users using the service. It is possible a single user downloading files from your server will consume your entire pipe. OTOH, it might support hundreds of simultaneous users, if they are each using a small amount. In reality, your link capacity will be shared by all users regardless of the number of users.

Can I use snow leopard on an external drive

I have a mid-2010 13" MacBook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running Mountain Lion 10.8.3. I recently upgraded the internal hard drive from 250 GB to 500 GB and the new internal drive is working just fine.
I put the smaller hard drive in an external case, reformated it, and installed Snow Leopard 10.6. I've tried booting from the Snow Leopard drive, but something is preventing me from doing so. Mountain Lion won't relinquish control of the system.
Am I trying to do the impossible, or is there a way to boot from an external Snow Leopard drive when you are running ML on your internal drive? I would like to be able to do this so I can use some legacy applications that ML doesn't support.
Thanks -
Steven

When I erased and formatted the external drive (using Disk Utility) I made sure that the partition scheme was GUID.
I installed Snow Leopard on the drive while the drive was connected (via USB) to my iMac, which is also running Snow Leopard. Booting from the extrnal drive on the iMac seems to be working OK. However, I use my MacBook at home and at work, and I'd like to be able to use several legacy applications there.
I've tried booting by going to System Preferences > Startup Disk AND by holding the option key down during startup. In both cases things seem to be going along smoothly, then I get a black dialogue box that tells me (in several languages) to power down the computer, then restart it.
I haven't tried using Startup Manager. I do that right now.
Thanks.

Can i use snow leopard on an eMac?

just got an emac from a freind of a friend no operating system disk or anything so sort of blind here =[
as i dont have a mouse i cant poke around on it to find out specs etc..
does anyone know what the most up-to-date operating system i can use is an also where is best to get it from?

Suzieseller,
You are mistaken.
You cannot run Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion on an eMac!
These versions of OS X are for Intel Processor Macs only.
Older Macs, such as an eMac, use Motorola PowerPC processors.
The Intel OS X versions are incompatible.
Petemadeley,
As far as I am aware Apple sales no longer stocks retail versions of OS X 10.5 Leopard.
OS X 10.5 Leopard sold for Apple's original price of $129 U.S.D..
If you can find this online either at the original price, cheaper or a little more expensive than this,this is the OP's only options.
The only options are other online sources.
My advice, forget eBay!
You can still find OS X Leopard 10.5 via Amazon.com.
Since your eMac is only a 700 MHz model, I would not recommend installing or running OS X 10.5 Leopard.
With only a max. RAM of 1 GB of RAM, OS X 10.5 will run as slow as a turtle.
I will make that eMac painfully slow to use!
You need to find black retail discs of OS X 10.4 Tiger.
OS X 10.4 Tiger will run far better on that eMac than OS X 10.5
Also, be advised, you need to determine if your eMac has a drive capable of both reading CDs and DVDs.
Tiger came in both DVD and CD form. If your eMac doesn't have a combo CD/DVD drive and only a CD reading drive, you need to locate the CD set of OS X 10.4 Tiger discs.
Here's an Amazon link to Tiger.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=O S+X+Tiger
Here's another link for eMac discs both CD/DVD sets s well as a rare set sold with the iWork suite of apps for your eMac.
http://fastmac.com/osx.php
Given how old OS X10.4 Tiger is now, these are not unreasonable pricing for these.
Good Luck to you!

Can I use Snow Leopard and Leopard on different partitions?

My new MacBook Pro did not include a Snow Leopard installation disk, and I desperately need to use Boot Camp to install Windows asap. I do have my old Leopard disk. Will using the previous OS with Boot Camp cause a cat fight that will produce problems, or should I suffer the serious inconvenience of waiting until I can get a SL disk?
Thanks.

Cat fight will ensue.
Order replacement installer disks from Apple as it includes the free iLife that comes with a new Mac.
The $29 Snow Leopard retail disk does not. However it's possbile to install Leopard from the installer disks then upgrade to Snow Leopard, thus getting your iLife.

Can I use Snow Leopard Server with Windows clients?

Mainly for e-mails and calendars. I have small office with 12 windows computers from XP to Win 7 and MS Office from 2003 to 2007. Will Snow Leopard Server work with that?

Can Mac OS X Server do this? Sure.
You're going to be learning a whole lot about running a server, regardless.
You really need to sort out what you have here and where you want to be, and how to upgrade or replace yor migrate your environment, and before you add the substantial increase in complexity of serving Windows from Mac. If you can't get off of Office circa 2003 or similarly old software, what are you going to do when you find, say, an incompatibility, or a need to migrate mail clients? Who are you going to call for help?
I'd guess that Small Business Server (SBS) is likely your best target here.
AFAIK, Exchange Server (which I'm guessing is what you're using) supports larger mailboxes in newer releases.
Look at the sustaining costs for what you're considering purchasing, too. How much it'll cost to configure, deploy and maintain the box and the network. Up-front costs are an obvious consideration, but maintaining many boxes and many versions itself introduces costs.
The arrival of Lion Server next month does not change my opinion. (And I'm not usually suggesting Windows and Windows Server boxes, either.) (And with the arrival of Lion and Lion Server, I'll follow my usual approach and not look to upgrade to the first release of that (or any other) new platform, if there are business-critical functions and services involved. You need time to debug and test the deployment.)

Can I install Snow Leopard on an intel PC hardware?

I am using MS Win7 on a Dell Vostro 200 (intel dual core, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 256 MB video card).
I would like to wipe HDD and install snow leopard on this Dell Vostro 200.
Is this possible?
or, do I have to buy an intel MAC computer?
Ken in IOWA.

Do you somehow think you are treading on thin ice? or do you really believe all this "sort of" and "briefly, for awile" or "supposedly" as if it isn't actually, you know, "real" or something?
Yes it is illegal and risky, and I don't think OS X is worth the effort to shoehorn it onto non-EFI hardware.
Putting Windows on a Mac was at one point 3 yrs ago a challenge, a contest, to see who could accomplish the feat, as well.

What is the max amount of RAM that I can install using Snow Leopard?

What is the max amount of RAM I can install in my MacBook Pro? Does having Snow Leopard raise the RAM limit?

Michael Velasquez II wrote:
Despite only being able to read 3GB, what is the better way to go?
qty(1) 2GB and qty(1) 1GB Stick
or
(2) 2GB sticks?
In general, for best performance, it's best to match up the same size modules in each slot (2x2 in this case). However, given that it's only going to read 3GB, I'm not sure if that holds true here.

Can i install snow leopard

i don't have i-mac can i install snow leopard on my intel core2duo e7500 2.93Ghz ???

If you're using an Intel Mac, buy it on DVD from the online Apple Store. If you're on a regular PC, you can't; the lack of Mac OS X drivers for the PC's hardware would make it unusable anyway.
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How can i install snow leopard on my mac G5 using a command line and booting from an external usb rom, since my disk i have is not a bootable media

How can i install snow leopard on my mac G5 using a command line and booting from an external usb rom, since my disk i have is not a bootable media

Hi.
You simply can't. Snow Leopard is compiled in Intel binary only.
Good Luck.

My Imac is ejecting every disk inserted in it, I cannot access the disks, can any body help me troubleshoot the problem. I am using snow leopard.

My Imac is ejecting every disk inserted in it, I cannot access the disks, can any body help me troubleshoot the problem. I am using snow leopard.

Try resetting the SMC Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support
and PRAM How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
If those don't help you can try a cleaning disc or a quick shot of compressed air. Chances are that your drive has failed, join the club it's not all that uncommon. You can either have it replaced or purchase an inexpensive external drive. Don't buy the cute little Apple USB Superdrive, it won't work on macs with internal drives working or not.

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