Leave your results in the comments for other TUAW readers to see. We'd love to hear from any iMac, MacBook, MacBook Air or Mac mini owners who are able to run the same benchmarks on their favorite computers before and after 10.6.8. His benchmarks also showed improved performance, although not as dramatic, with the Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics processor in the MacBook Pro. Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of macOS, Apples desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. What he found was that the 'newer graphics drivers in 10.6.8 not only eliminated any decline in speed from 10.6.5 through 10.6.7 but showed significantly improved OpenGL performance in Xbench and the game Halo for the ATI Radeon HD 5870 card' in the Mac Pro. But did you know that installing Mac OS X 10.6.8 might also improve graphic performance on your Mac?īill Fox over at ran benchmarks on both a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro. Yes, it addressed a laundry list of improvements to both networking and Mac OS X Lion readiness. If you have an iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, or Mac mini model that was originally released in Early/Mid 2006, the latest version of Mac OS X your system supports is Snow Leopard.

I have an 10.6 USB installer key but it wont work as it is an early version of the OS. I try to make an install USB key but I am unable to find a full installer of any of these 2 versions. Sure, the (hopefully) last version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released yesterday. I need specifically one of the 2 versions above for an early 2011 Macbook Pro 17inch without DVD drive.

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