Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard
Add a new Mac to your Mac. Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard is packed with over 300 new features, installs easily, and works with the software and accessories you already have.
Choose a single-user license for home or office. Or if you have more than one Mac at home, choose the five-user Family Pack.*
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Overview
Top New Features and Improvements in Leopard
Desktop
A neat place to work.
Leopard brings a stunning new look to the desktop, and stacks provides a great new way to keep it clean.
Finder
Give your files the rock star treatment.
See your files right in the Finder and browse through them with Cover Flow. And make distant machines look like they're nearby with the new sidebar and Back to My Mac.
Quick Look
Look before you launch.
Instantly view full-size previews of your files without opening an application.
Time Machine
A giant leap backward.
Automatic backup is now built right into your Mac. With a simple one-click setup, Time Machine keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your computer — and if you ever need to recover a lost file, Time Machine will virtually take you back in time to find it.
Think outside the inbox.
Add style and elegance to your email with stationery, and stay organized with notes and to-dos.
iChat
Not being there is half the fun.
Connect face to face with easy-to-use, high-quality video conferencing in iChat — now featuring fun Photo Booth effects, backdrops, and iChat Theater.
Spaces
Room for everything.
Group related application windows into separate spaces and switch between them with ease.
Safari 3
Still the world's best web browser.
The fastest browser on any platform now has better tab control, improved Find capabilities, inline PDF controls, and more.
Parental Controls
Safety first.
Easily set up your Mac so that your children can safely surf and communicate over the Internet.
Boot Camp
Run Windows on your Mac.
Run Windows XP and Windows Vista at native speed on your Mac.
* The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that household. By “household” we mean a person or persons who share the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home, or condominium, including student members who are primary residents of that household but reside at a separate on-campus _aw_location. This license does not extend to business or commercial users.
- DVD containing Mac OS X v10.5.4 Leopard
- Printed and electronic documentation
- Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor
- 512MB of physical RAM
- DVD drive for installation
What’s in the Box
Minimum System Requirements
Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply. Time Machine requires an additional hard drive, sold separately. iChat requires a compatible camera. Some features have additional requirements.
Most Recent Reviews
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Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard
The best overall...
Written by JH from Detroit
Jun 7, 2009
10.5 is the best operating system ever! Works with all of my Windows accessories, etc. I am a recent PC to Mac user and I have not…Read more had any problems switching! "It Just Works"
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Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard
Well worth the upgrade
Written by JW from Orange
Jun 5, 2009
When I first saw this product, I really wanted it. So, I bought it. At first, I thought it looked strange and had all these new fe…Read moreatures I didn't know how to use. But after a week or two, I got used to this new version of Apple's OS. I am stunned. This is a very good upgrade. Trust me, you won't regret it. If not for the features, you should get it because of compatibility's sake.
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Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard
Leopard; 10.5. out of 10 stars!!!!
Written by MS
May 31, 2009
Leopard is amazing and fast even on an ibook g4 with 1gb of RAM and a 1.33 Ghz processor. Quick look is amazing, it even plays vid…Read moreeos great!
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Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard
Tough to migrate from older Macs
Written by DP from Portland
Feb 4, 2009
I just got a new MacBook with Leopard. Overall, it looks great, but migrating from an older Mac is turning out to be a real pain. …Read moreTo do it with Migration Assistant, you need to install that application on the older Mac (kind of a client-side application). Unfortunately, the application is not compatible with even Panther (OS 10.3), and I had to call support to even figure that out! So you're left with logging on to your hard drive (as root user) and bringing things over one by one (I'm still trying to figure out how to bring over iPhoto and Firefox bookmarks, etc.). So the migration process is neither smooth, nor elegant. One would think that the migration tool would be much more backwards-compatible, since it is specifically going to be used on older Macs!
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Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard
Just keeps getting better!
Written by CC from Broken Arrow
Feb 5, 2009
There are so many things in Leopard I like, I couldn't begin to tell you. I was unsure about upgrading since I liked Tiger so much…Read more, but I am very glad that I did. The main thing I wanted was to use the Time Capsule, which works perfectly. But there are many things that I immediately couldn't live without. Like Spaces, it's a new twist on an old Linux trick to have multiple desktops. The new dock is much better with it's fanning folder effects. Quick look is the greatest thing ever. I have a mouse button programmed to Quick Look, just click (or hit the spacebar) & you immediately see the contents of a file without ever opening it. It even works on music & videos.. Installation was a breeze & it runs great even on my old G4. In short, I love it!
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Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard
The dominator
Written by CC from Ottawa
Feb 5, 2009
This OS is far beyond anything the competition has to offer. The graphics are crisp and the OS performs very smoothly. Every time …Read moreI open my computer, it always operates at the same speed unlik some others... What really makes a mac stand out is the fact that it has very few bugs ans is extremely reliable. That is the main reason why people buy Macs! On top of that, leopard has so many cool features like quick look (the document opens reaaly fast all the time) and time machine so that you dont have to worry about backing up your data. However, you do need an external hard drive. I give this operating system five thumbs up!!! The only complaint is that mail sometimes wont quit and a force quit is the only way.
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