General requirements
- Mac computer with an Intel processor
- 1GB of memory
- 5GB of available disk space
- DVD drive for installation
- Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
Feature-specific requirements
Time Machine
requires an additional hard drive or Time Capsule (sold separately).
Photo Booth
requires an iSight camera (built in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder. Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure, and white balance.
Boot Camp
requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista (sold separately).
Screen sharing
in iChat and the Finder requires a 128-Kbps Internet connection (300 Kbps recommended).
DVD Player
requires a 1.6GHz processor or faster for improved deinterlacing.
iChat
- Audio chats require a microphone and a 56-Kbps Internet connection.
- Video chats require an iSight camera (built in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder; and a 128-Kbps upstream and downstream Internet connection.
- Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure, and white balance.
- Some iChat features offer better performance and quality with higher system capabilities. More details
Exchange Support
requires Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 4. Auto-setup requires enabling the Autodiscovery feature of Microsoft Exchange Server.
QuickTime X movie capture
requires iSight camera (built-in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder.
QuickTime H.264 hardware acceleration
requires a Mac with an NVIDIA 9400M graphics processor.
Developer tools
require 1GB of memory and an additional 3GB of available disk space.
OpenCL
requires one of the following graphics cards or graphics processors:
- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600
- ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870
64-bit support
requires a Mac with a 64-bit processor.
Grand Central Dispatch
requires a Mac with a multicore processor.
What’s in the Box
- Installation DVD
- Printed and electronic documentation
Applications
- Address Book
- Automator
- Calculator
- Chess
- Dashboard
- Dictionary
- DVD Player
- Font Book
- Front Row
- iCal
- iChat
- Image Capture
- iSync (supported devices)
- iTunes
- Mail
- Photo Booth
- Preview
- QuickTime Player
- Safari
- Stickies
- System Preferences
- TextEdit
- Time Machine
Utilities
- Activity Monitor
- AirPort Utility
- Audio MIDI Setup
- Bluetooth File Exchange
- Boot Camp Assistant
- ColorSync Utility
- Console
- DigitalColor Meter
- Disk Utility
- Exposé
- Grab
- Grapher
- Java Preferences
- Keychain Access
- Migration Assistant
- Network Utility
- Podcast Capture
- RAID Utility
- Script Editor
- Script Utility
- Setup Assistant
- Spaces
- System Profiler
- Terminal
- VoiceOver Utility
- X11
Key Technologies
- AppleScript
- Aqua
- Bonjour
- CDSA security architecture
- Cocoa, Carbon, and Java
- ColorSync
- Core Animation
- Core Audio
- Core Image
- Core Video
- Grand Central Dispatch
- H.264
- Inkwell
- OpenCL
- OpenGL
- PDF
- Quartz Extreme
- QuickTime X
- 64-bit computing
- Sync
- Unicode 5.1
- Universal Access
- UNIX
- USB and FireWire peripheral support
- Xgrid
Development
- Xcode 3 IDE with Interface Builder 3
- Instruments
- Dashcode
- AppleScript Studio
- Automator 2
- Shark
- GCC compiler and toolset (original project by FSF.org)
- DTrace (original project by Sun)
- Complete Java JDK, including javac, javadoc, ANT, and Maven tools
- Apache web server
- AppleScript
- Ruby and the Ruby on Rails frameworks
- Python
- Perl
- PHP
- SQLite
Languages
- English
- Japanese
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Italian
- Dutch
- Swedish
- Danish
- Norwegian
- Finnish
- Traditional Chinese
- Simplified Chinese
- Korean
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Russian
- Polish