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Apple has always been creative in dealing with the marketing strategies that they come up with to make a stand in the market. the release of the Mac OS X snow leopard is by far considered the best market release. This statement is adhered to by the low price release the end-users had to pay for a single user license as well as the ease of involvement involved with the use of the Mac OS X snow leopard.

The Mac OS X snow leopard didn’t house any new additional feature but was hauled with an improvement in the software framework the existing features worked on. The Snow leopard was introduced into the market for a very low price od 29$ that made the OS be downloaded almost b every end-user of a Mac.

License
Official Installer

File Size
7.2GB

Language
English

Developer
Apple Inc.

Overview

The Mac OS X snow leopard can be considered as the trial experiment held by apple to make an improvement in their software framework and also increase the credibility of the devices offered by Apple to the market. Apple majorly focused on the software part with this OS update merely to experiment with new software algorithms and expand the technological horizon of the operating system.

The changes made to the existing features will give you a brief idea about how Apple planned to revolutionize computing.

Mac App store

The full-scale dedicated store to download all the applications for your Macintosh system. This was released along with the Mac OS X leopard to get the response from the end-user about its practicality and when all positive reviews turned in, apple decided to go with the MacApp store with a tweak to the software frame and also improving the user interface between the user and the system.

Lesser space

Apple was very particular about reducing the amount of memory taken up by the operating system. Since the Mac OS X Snow leopard was an overhaul feature improvement update, Apple planned to keep things subtle and succeeded in keeping the bar less than 7GB compared to its ancestor the Mac OS X leopard. They mainly cut down on the space that was used up for pre-installed drivers for printers.

User Interface tweaks

Apple also made an intelligent watch over the aesthetic details that accompanied with the update. They made sure that they made the user interface as interactive and compelling as possible to give the user a good experience while using the system. they also made sure that the tweak in the traffic light type buttons on the title bar is kept subtle and lighter to give a jump to the aesthetic detailing.

The finder application was also fully revamped from scratch and was written in Cocoa, Apple’s very own objective-oriented programming language. This gave Apple the chance to upgrade their usage as well as get the most out of cocoa as well.

The sleep and boot rate of the Mac OS X snow leopard is considered to be the best and fast in its class.

Architecture transformation

With the Mac OS X Snow leopard, the 32-bit architecture went into the dark in the history of constructing architecture for apple devices. This ensures that apple devices only worked on 64-bit resolutions. This meant that the previous apple device which could only support 32-bit were starting to rot as scrap. This move from Apple wasn’t welcome by many but as the popularity of the 64-bit architecture spread, apple sufficed through the rough patch.

Open CL

Snow

The Open Computing Language or popularly known as the Open CL is considered as the language that paved the way for improvement in the graphical user interface of the Apple devices. The precision involved in numerical processing made by the open CL ensures that the optimal use of the graphical interface was done. This also ensured that the proper load of work was put on the GPU and enabled to adapt the screen to 3-D games like a pro. The open CL is based on the open standard format that was supported by all the leading graphical processing chips of famous brand names like AMD, Intel, Nvidia, etc.

System requirements

  • Mac Computer with intel processor supporting X84-64-bit architecture.
  • 5GB of free hard disk space.
  • 1GB minimum RAM.
  • DVD drive or external USB drive.

Download Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 ISO and DMG direct file

You can download the Mac OS X Snow leopard DMG file directly from the ISO river post absolutely free of cost. Before you proceed with the download make sure that you have a significant amount of space for download or it may end up creating trash files which you will have to manually remove. The Mac OS X snow leopard is a software upgraded Operating system. If you are using a Mac system that is older than 2005, then the Snow leopard OS won’t support onto your device.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 ISO and DMG file direct Download - ISORIVER

You can download the Mac OS X Snow leopard DMG file directly from the ISO river post absolutely free of cost. Before you proceed with the download make sure that you have a significant amount of space for download or it may end up creating trash files which you will have to manually remove.

Price Currency: USD

Operating System: Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6

Application Category: OS

There are a few good articles explaining how to install Mac OS X on VirtualBox and a lot of people had reported success:

http://www.taranfx.com/install-snow-leopard-virtualbox
http://www.sysprobs.com/mac-os-guest-virtualbox-326-snow-leopard-1064-windows-7-32-bit
http://www.sysprobs.com/install-mac-snow-leopard-1063-oracle-virtualbox-32-apple-intel-pc

But unfortunately, when I try to install on my Lenovo ThinkPad X201 with Core i5 M520 CPU, none of those guide worked. I couldn’t boot up the Mac Installer DVD from the virtual machine. After a number of hours try and error, I finally got to the conclusion that all my failures were because, the boot loader and OS X version combinations that I tried, none of them supports my Core i5 CPU.

I then searched up and down for the support of Core i5 boot loaders. With help from my friend, I found this page. It has no mention of VirtualBox but the tools and instructions worked for me. When I was about to write a full blog of the detail steps, I came to know from Dinesh that he actually had a post about using iBoot with VirtualBox, which was pretty much what I did.

Now you have two options to go. a) Use a pre-built VirtualBox disk image (.vdi) that has both Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and boot loader pre-installed; b) install manually step by step yourself.

Using Pre-built Disk Image

This is an easiest option to go,

  1. Download the the disk image following the links provided in the end of all steps. Total 7.5G compressed and 12G expanded.
  2. Unzip it using 7-Zip, a really cool free utility that can open almost any compressed file including .iso image.
  3. Rename the downloaded vdi file to something reads better to you, say SnowLeopard.vdi and place it in the your virtual disk image folder. You can find your Default Hard Disk Folder in settings of the VirtualBox console (File->Preferences or Ctrl-G)
  4. Complete only the step 1 of the instruction here to create the Virtual Machine, except that do NOT create the hard disk as we already have one, acknowledge to the warning message and continue.
  5. Go to setting of the newly create VM and selected the Storage on left. Keep the CD/DVD drive and delete all Virtual Hard Disks if you accidently created in last step. Add a SATA Controller and select the newly downloaded vdi file. Use the folder icon with green arrow to add the disk if it is not already in the Hard Disk dropdown list.
  6. Start the VM and have your Mac OS X running, the user id and password are both “vbox”.
  7. To change the screen resolution, follow the instructions in the manual install option.

Virtualbox Mac Os X Image

Snow Leopard 10.6.4 pre-installed bootable VirtualBox disk image download links from fileserve:

  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.001 MD5:04f1bfd7b581eefc6ff3af21d708d678
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.002 MD5:f8f5ccd92dd92678f06a716836c89b5e
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.003 MD5:313efd49fab57508e6408fc2ebba8d1e
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.004 MD5:f0e7f0b95ffff405a64db13f144e03ad
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.005 MD5:34408bf64c89469e694e8e7731742d55
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.006 MD5:92f17379ab9192f761adbd8b7948f7b3
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.007 MD5:d4a7f1c6e0f597fd2b60af14bed88a1a
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.008 MD5:3838445f3cb21e08bf2b939061a3f184
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.009 MD5:4226544fafe37a0e92addf2d0758d3e7
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.010 MD5:c097ca3b019e6c6ba3fad2b46a424aa3
  • VirtualBox-Snow-Leopard-10-6-4.7z.011 MD5:fc590c3dde7cc282a4118d26907f503a

Install Using iBoot and Snow Leopard Retail DVD image

Somebody may prefer this option because it allows you customize the installer where you can select if you would install the additional languages and print drivers. I’ll save my time by introducing you to that post for most of it and just noting down things that you need to watch out here.

My Environment

Lenovo ThinkPad X201, Core i5 M520 CPU, 4GB RAM, Integrated Graphics, Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, VirtualBox 3.2.8

I have Snow Leopard 10.6.3 Install DVD iso image on hand and so that’s what I used. I believe 10.6.4 will sure work and 10.6.2 is the first version supports Core i series CPU so it “should” work too. Anything older than that won’t work, don’t bother trying.

Install Boot Loader to HDD

It is very important that you must update to 10.6.4 before installing the boot loader from MultiBeast package. Otherwise, your Mac won’t boot at all, not even from the iBoot boot loader iso. Always take a snapshot of your VM before you do this.

Screen Resolution

There are three methods described on this page. I tried first one, doesn’t work, than I tried 2nd one, I cannot start VM. So eventually, that’s how I made it work.

  • You need both method 1 and 2, any one along won’t work.
  • You must have the boot loader installed to HDD first, i.e. you must be able to boot directly from HDD.
  • For method 1, you must edit the plist file under /Extra, not the one under /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration.
  • The command line described in method 2 will corrupt your machine XML file. I had to edit the file manually. To edit the XML file:
    1. Find the location of the xml file by going to File->Preferences of you VirtualBox console and get the value of Default Machine Folder (see the image above). Go to that folder and see <Your Machine Name> sub folder. The XML file is there.
    2. Shutdown all VM instances and also close VirtualBox console. This is very important as otherwise your change will be overwritten.
    3. Backup <Your Machine Name>.xml file.
    4. Use any text edit to add below line right under <ExtraData>, and set the resolution that you want, make sure it is the same resolution was what you set in the com.apple.Boot.plist file.
      <ExtraDataItem name='CustomVideoMode1' value='1280x800x32'/>

The final xml should look something like below:

Mac Os X On Virtualbox

Good luck and your mileage may vary.