Does Snow Leopard support MacBook Pro 2007

Question

Posting this on behalf of a friend who has a 17" MacBook Pro from the late 2007 that original had 10.4 installed-- it is running Intel 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo.
From my readings on the web, it is said that Snow Leopard (10.6) supports MacBook Pro that is running Intel chip sets. However, she brought the Pro to some Apple store and the staff says that she cannot install 10.6 on her Pro and can only upgrade to 10.5.
Can anyone confirm this? (and know the reason why?)

Answer 1

Ian Parkinson wrote:
Legally you DO need Leopard as SL is an update to Leopard.
No, it is not. There are three Snow Leopard licenses. The single user, the family pack, and the discounted update for people who bought a Mac shortly before SL release. It was something like $10. That is the discounted price for the upgrade version.
The 10.5 only purchase price is reduced, but the pack with iLife includes a full price version.
The SL price is "reduced" over previous OS releases because it doesn't offer anything strikingly new from Leopard. It was essentially a rewrite of the Leopard code to make most of the apps 64-bit.
Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard.
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, just purchase Mac OS X v10.6.3 Snow Leopard and follow the simple installation instructions.
Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set, which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6.3 Snow Leopard; iLife, with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork, Apple’s productivity suite for home and office including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
That is a marketing campaign suggesting a good method to move from Tiger to Snow Leopard and get the current iLife apps.
[The Software License Agreement|http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx106.pdf] is specific to the type of purchase you make and what license you have. If you buy a single-user license of Snow Leopard, you can use it on one apple branded computer--no requirement for having Leopard installed or purchased previously.
If you buy a family pack license, you can install it on up to five Apple branded computers. Again, no requirement to have Leopard installed or otherwise.
If you buy a Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard, you can install it on an Apple branded computer that has Leopard installed.
Those three licenses correspond to the three ways Snow Leopard is sold (or was in the case of the Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard).
If you buy a single-user license of Snow Leopard, you have a legal right to install it and use it on any one Apple branded computer (that meets the min requirements) regardless of ever owning any other version of Mac OS X.