General requirements
- Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor
- 512MB of physical RAM
- DVD drive for installation
- 9GB of available disk space
- Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
- Some features require Apple's .Mac service; fees 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 1.6GHz processor or faster for improved de-interlacing.
- Developer tools require 1GB of memory and an additional 3GB of available disk space.
iChat requirements
- 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.
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
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
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
Languages
- English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Polish
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
