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 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)

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
{| cellpadding="5" style="margin-bottom:0px !important"
 * Installation DVD
 * Welcome to Mac OS X Leopard User's Guide
 * - valign="top"
 * bgcolor="#dcdcdc" width="20%"|

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
 * bgcolor="#f1f1f1" width="20%"|

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
 * bgcolor="#dcdcdc" width="20%"|

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
 * bgcolor="#f1f1f1" width="20%"|

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