Snow Leopard - Original MacBook Pro

Will Snow Leopard work with the original MacBook Pro? If so, will all the new features of the operating system work with the equipment that the original MacBook Pro has (i.e. Intel Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA 8600, etc...)?
Thank!
Message was edited by: Michael710

Snow Leopard will run on any Intel Mac. Sounds like you don't have an original MBP - those have Core Duo CPUs, which are 32-bit and can't use the advantages of the new 64-bit OS. If you have a Core 2 Duo MBP with an 8600 GPU, you will be able to use 64-bit processing and OpenCL (which uses the GPU for CPU-like processing) - so, in that case, yes the important features of SL will work for you.

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