Mac OS X 10.5

Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard, is the sixth major update to Mac OS X for Apple's Macintosh computers, and was released on October 26, 2007.

Other recent Mac OS development code names have been 10.3 Panther and 10.4 Tiger.

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was available as an upgrade to new Apple computers purchased after 1st October 2007 that did not already have Mac OS X 10.5 installed or a Leopard upgrade DVD included. Leopard was the last OS released by Apple to support both the Intel and PowerPC architectures.

Leopard was replaced by "Snow Leopard" in late 2009.

Version History

 * Mac OS X 10.5.0 (released October 26, 2007)
 * Mac OS X 10.5.1 (released November 15, 2007)
 * Mac OS X 10.5.2 (released February 11, 2008)
 * Mac OS X 10.5.3 (released May 28, 2008)
 * Mac OS X 10.5.4 (released June 30, 2008)
 * Mac OS X 10.5.5 (released September 15, 2008)
 * Mac OS X 10.5.6 (released December 15, 2008)
 * Mac OS X 10.5.7 (released May 12, 2009)
 * Mac OS X 10.5.8 (released August 5, 2009)
 * Mac OS X 10.5.9 (released October 31, 2021, unofficial support for PowerPC only)

General requirements

 * Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor
 * 512MB of memory
 * DVD drive for installation
 * 9GB of available disk space
 * Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.

Feature-specific requirements
Time Machine requires an additional hard drive (sold separately).

Photo Booth requires an iSight camera (built-in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder; and an Intel or PowerPC G5 processor. Backdrop effects require an Intel Core Duo or faster processor. Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure, and white balance.

Boot Camp requires a Mac with an Intel processor and Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista (sold separately).

Screen sharing in iChat and in the Finder requires a 128-Kbps Internet connection (300-Kbps recommended).

Front Row requires a Mac with built-in IR and an Apple Remote.

DVD Player requires a 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 or faster processor for improved de-interlacing.

iChat requirements More details Developer tools require 1GB of memory and an additional 3GB of available disk space.
 * 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 128-Kbps upstream and downstream Internet connection.
 * Photo Booth and backdrop effects require an Intel Core Duo or faster processor.
 * 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.

What’s in the Box
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Applications

 * Address Book
 * Automator
 * Calculator
 * Chess
 * Dashboard
 * Dictionary
 * DVD Player
 * Exposé
 * Font Book
 * Front Row
 * iCal
 * iChat
 * Image Capture
 * iSync
 * iTunes
 * Mail
 * Photo Booth
 * Preview
 * QuickTime Player
 * Safari
 * Spaces
 * Stickies
 * System Preferences
 * TextEdit
 * Time Machine
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Utilities

 * Activity Monitor
 * AirPort Utility
 * Audio MIDI Setup
 * Boot Camp Assistant
 * Bluetooth File Exchange
 * ColorSync Utility
 * Console
 * Digital Color Meter
 * Directory
 * Directory Utility
 * Disk Utility
 * Grab
 * Grapher
 * Keychain Access
 * Migration Assistant
 * Network Utility
 * ODBC Administrator
 * Podcast Capture
 * RAID Utility
 * Setup Assistant
 * System Profiler
 * Terminal
 * VoiceOver Utility
 * X11
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Key Technologies

 * AppleScript
 * Aqua
 * Bonjour
 * CDSA security architecture
 * Cocoa, Carbon, and Java
 * ColorSync
 * Core Animation
 * Core Audio
 * Core Image
 * Core Video
 * H.264
 * Inkwell
 * OpenGL
 * PDF
 * Quartz Extreme
 * QuickTime 7
 * 64-bit computing
 * Sync
 * Unicode 4
 * Universal Access
 * UNIX
 * USB and FireWire peripheral support
 * Xgrid
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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
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