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I had a guy bring me in an old Mac Book Pro that had a corrupted hard drive. I saved his Data but then realized his computer was so old that I was going to have trouble getting a copy of OSX installed. His computer was no longer supported on current OSX releases. To make things worse his DVD drive wouldn't read a install disk. So this post is the result of me finding a way to resurrect an old Mac Book Pro. I hope it will help someone else in a similar situation.

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Before starting this tutorial, ensure that you have a USB drive with at least 8GB of storage as well as a Leopard, or Snow Leopard retail DVD or disk image. Grey DVDs that were included with a Mac at the time of purchase cannot be used to make USB boot drives as they do not include drivers for Macs other than the computer it was shipped with. In this tutorial I will be creating a Snow Leopard USB install disk. The steps are the same to create one for Leopard.

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Creating a Snow Leopard USB Boot Drive Using Disk Utility

Start by launching Disk Utility on the Mac. To do this, you can either search for the application in Spotlight or find it in the Applications folder. Locate the USB drive on the left-hand side of the window and click on its name, not its partition.

Format the USB drive

  • Click the Partition tab
  • Under the Partition Layout header click on the 1 Partition option in the drop-down menu
  • Click the Format drop-down menu and select Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Bear in mind that this will erase all data from the USB drive, so backup any important files before proceeding.

  • To format the USB drive drive, click the Apply button in the lower right-hand corner of the Disk Utility window.

Snow Leopard, DVD or Disk Image

  • Locate a Snow Leopard disk image or DVD on the Mac
  • If you're using a disk image, mount it to the desktop
  • In the Disk Utility window, click the Restore tab in the USB drive's menu

In the center of the window you'll see two boxes: one labeled Source and another Destination.

  • Drag-and-drop the USB drive's partition into the Destination box
  • Drag-and-drop the Mac OS X Install Drive disk into the Source box
  • At the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and click the Restore button

Alpha omega mac os. Disk Utility will restore the OS X Install DVD or disk image to the USB drive; this process may take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour depending on how quick the Mac is.

Using The Snow Leopard USB Drive

Now that you've created a Snow Leopard USB drive, let's use it to install OS X Snow Leopard as well as access Terminal, Disk Utility, and other OS X utilities.

  • Power down the Mac and reboot while holding the Option key
  • Select the OS X Install DVD from the boot menu using the arrow keys on the Mac's keyboard
  • Select the language you'd like to use when prompted

Installing OS X Snow Leopard

To install OS X Snow Leopard from the USB drive, you'll need to reformat the Mac's hard drive. To do this, look towards the top of the screen and click on Utilities from the top menu and then click Disk Utility from the drop-down menu.

Formatting The Mac's Hard Drive

  • Click on the Mac's hard drive name
  • Click the Erase tab
  • Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format drop-down menu
  • Name the drive whatever you'd like

Please note that all data on the Mac's hard drive will be erased, so backup all important files before proceeding.

  • Press the Erase button to format the Mac's hard drive

Starting The Snow Leopard Installer

  • Quit Disk Utility by pressing Command-Q on the keyboard
  • Press the Continue button
  • From the center of the window, select the Mac's hard drive
  • Press the Install button

OS X Snow Leopard may take a bit of time to install depending on the Mac's hardware. Upon completion, the Mac will restart and prompt you to create an account.

Disk Utilities on the Snow Leopard USB Drive

Additionally, you can access Disk Utility, Terminal, Safari (to access Apple help articles. not general browsing) and other Mac utilities from the Snow Leopard USB drive.

Boot the Mac to the USB drive using the steps shown above and click on the Utilities button from the top bar. You can access all available utilities from this drop-down menu.

It's nice to have these utilities available to use from the USB drive, especially Disk Utility. For example, if you believe your hard drive has died or is corrupted, you can boot your Mac from the USB drive and use Disk Utility to check the the hard drive's SMART status and repair said drive.

OS X Snow Leopard USB Drive, Completed

In this tutorial, I've shown you how to create a bootable OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard USB drive. https://br-free.mystrikingly.com/blog/staple-wars-mac-os. You can now use the USB drive to upgrade, maintain and restore Macs to OS X 10.6.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard marked an endpoint in the evolution of traditional OS X. After this, Apple introduced OS X 10.7 Lion, which moved the Mac in the same direction as iOS – a whole new direction for desktop Macs. Also, for those using software written in the PowerPC era, Snow Leopard gives us the last chance to run those apps.

OS X Version Share on Intel Macs, Late 2009 through May 2015

OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard remains a Top 3 platform among Mac users even 4 versions later!

While OS X 10.6 is now several versions behind, it is hanging in there as one of the most used versions of OS X, as data from our site logs shows in the graph above. We recognize that our audience is more likely to stick with an older OS, whether due to older hardware, software compatibility, or just seeing no need to change.

Whether our numbers are representative of worldwide OS X use or not, the trends here are fascinating. New versions are adopted quickly on release and grow more slowly, reaching their peak as the next version of OS X arrives – although none has achieved the nearly 85% share that Snow Leopard once had, based on our site traffic. They also drop quickly when a new version is released, followed by a slower decline that can go on for years.

Not long after 10.8 Mountain Lion was released, 10.7 Lion dropped below Snow Leopard's slowly declining level. Likewise, Mountain Lion share dropped precipitously shortly after 10.9 Mavericks arrived, the first free version of OS X, soon falling below Snow Leopard. And with the arrival of 10.10 Yosemite, Mavericks began its inevitable decline – and in coming months it could also fall behind Snow Leopard. Chinese checkers - dames chinoises mac os. It will definitely do so once OS X 10.11 El Capitan becomes a release product.

Snow Leopard has legs. You could well count it as the pinnacle of the classic version of OS X (OS X before it started getting iPhone-like features such as 'natural' scrolling), and as such there are a lot of good browser options for it.

I have Snow Leopard on my 2007 Mac mini, upgraded with 3 GB of system memory and a fast 320 GB hard drive. I also have a lot of different browsers installed: Camino, Chrome, Firefox, OmniWeb, Opera, Roccat, Safari, and Stainless among them. Let's look at them by the date of their latest release.

Camino: Dated but Useful

Of these browsers – and the list is not exhaustive – Camino 2.1.2 has been left to languish since 2012 yet remains a fast browser that I still find myself using for specific projects. You can run Camino very nicely on OS X 10.4 Tiger and a G3 Mac – and anything since.

Can you match? (antonio_linares) mac os. Camino won't become your everyday browser, but it's agile and works very nicely for legacy websites. It has never been updated for HTML5 and scores very poorly on the HTML5 Test.

The biggest drawback to Camino is that it tends to hang with too many open tabs or when you try to quit the app. Camino is based on an old version of Gecko (Gecko 19/Firefox 19 released in February 2013) that was current when Camino 2.1 was released. The code has been tweaked to function as a true Mac app, but over 3 years have elapsed since the last update, so don't expect it to compete in features with more modern browsers.

OmniWeb: The First Has Become Last

OmniWeb was originally developed for NeXT computers and their NeXTstep environment. When Apple acquired NeXT in 1996, NeXTstep became the foundation for Mac OS X, and OmniWeb was the first browser ported to Apple's next generation operating system.

The last release version of OmniWeb is 5.11.2, which arrived in July 2012 and added support for some OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion security features. Of the browsers that claim to still be in development for the Mac, it has the oldest 'most recent' version.

OmniWeb runs on PowerPC and Intel Macs running OS X 10.4.8 Tiger or later, and the development version is adding OS X 10.10 Yosemite support. Even though Omni Group continues to work on its browser, it looks like a browser from a decade back.

Safari: Left Behind

Safari 5.1.10 is the last version compatible with OS X 10.6. That update was released in 2013, making it only a year newer than Camino. Safari is currently at version 8.0.6, which requires OS X 10.10 Yosemite, so it's a few versions behind. Apple has a long tradition of leaving users of older versions of OS X with old software, so it's not just a matter of Safari.

I have given up on Safari for production work, although I continued to use it regularly until earlier this year. It is a perfectly competent browser, but it bogs down with multiple windows open, and this is especially true when using WordPress, the content management system we use for Low End Mac.

Stainless: It Shines!

Surprisingly, over recent months I have made Stainless 0.8 my most used browser. It's quick to launch, memory efficient, and handles WordPress (Low End Mac's content management system) very nicely. It has displaced Safari, which is what I used for WordPress until I gave Stainless a try.

Stainless was a project launched by Danny Espinoza in 2008 with some impressive goals. He notes:

'Stainless started out as a technology demo to showcase my own multi-processing architecture in response to Google Chrome (Stainless 0.1 was released three weeks after Google released Chrome for Windows). Sensing an opportunity and inspired by a growing fanbase, I decided to craft Stainless into a full-fledged browser and work on features that I hadn't seen before in other browsers.

'A prime example is parallel sessions, which allow you to log into a site using different credentials in separate tabs at the same time. This new technology is woven throughout Stainless, from the private cookie storage system, to session-aware bookmarks that remember the session in which they were saved. I still believe this is a true browser innovation (and I'd love to see this implemented in Chrome).'

After five years working on Stainless, Espinoza no longer had the time necessary to invest in moving the project forward and ended development in 2013, so Stainless is eternally stuck at version 0.8. Despite its seeming age, it's a sprightly browser.

Opera: Fairly Current

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I've always liked Opera, but never enough to use it regularly. Until now, the most recent version I had on my Mac was 12.16, which is positively ancient. Opera is up to version 30 these days.

Since version 26, Opera has required OS X 10.7 Lion or later. Version 25 (2014) is difficult to find, but this link will get you Opera 25.0.1614.71, the last version compatible with Snow Leopard.

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Roccat: A New Contender

Roccat is designed to be fast, and it's also available on iOS. Built-in ad blockers help it load sites much more quickly than if all the ads were in place. Roccat claims to block 99% of ads.

Roccat has special features optimized for social media, so if you use Facebook, Twitter, etc., that alone makes it worth a look.

Roccat Reader provides you with the kind of distraction-free online reading you have probably seen in more modern versions of Safari. Roccat Cloud lets you back up your bookmarks, tabs, history and more to the cloud and access it from another device running Roccat.

Firefox: Good Enough

Firefox is the descendant of Netscape Navigator, the first well-known browser. For a while it was the second choice browser on Windows and Macs, but Chrome pushed it aside long ago. I honestly can't remember the last time I used it.

Not to say that it isn't a perfectly competent browser. I enjoyed using it again after so many years away from it – although I must admit to having used TenFourFox, a PowerPC port of Firefox, heavily on my G4 and G5 Power Macs in recent years.

Firefox has a reader mode, which is marvelous for reading content on a cluttered page or in too small a typeface. Also on the plus side, it can automatically update to the current version (38.0.5 at the moment) and supports full screen mode.

Chrome: Up-to-Date but a RAM Hog

Google's Chrome browser is current at version 43.0.2357.81, and this version is compatible with all versions of OS X since 10.6 Snow Leopard. Caesar (video game). It's fast, but it's also a memory hog. One the plus side, you can run Chrome on Macs, Windows PCs, Linux, Chromebooks, iDevices, and Android gear.

It's also the most used browser on the market, although Safari eclipses it on Macs. It always updates itself to the latest version, so no worry about being left behind until Google drops Snow Leopard support.

Browser Overview

In the table below, browser size on disk is rounded up to the next full MB. HTML5 score is on a scale of 0-555. Full Screen indicates whether the browser supports full screen mode, which can be toggled using Cmd-Shift-F.

HTML5 Video notes whether H.264, Ogg Theora, and WebM are supported. 'All' means all 3 are.

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Roccat: A New Contender

Roccat is designed to be fast, and it's also available on iOS. Built-in ad blockers help it load sites much more quickly than if all the ads were in place. Roccat claims to block 99% of ads.

Roccat has special features optimized for social media, so if you use Facebook, Twitter, etc., that alone makes it worth a look.

Roccat Reader provides you with the kind of distraction-free online reading you have probably seen in more modern versions of Safari. Roccat Cloud lets you back up your bookmarks, tabs, history and more to the cloud and access it from another device running Roccat.

Firefox: Good Enough

Firefox is the descendant of Netscape Navigator, the first well-known browser. For a while it was the second choice browser on Windows and Macs, but Chrome pushed it aside long ago. I honestly can't remember the last time I used it.

Not to say that it isn't a perfectly competent browser. I enjoyed using it again after so many years away from it – although I must admit to having used TenFourFox, a PowerPC port of Firefox, heavily on my G4 and G5 Power Macs in recent years.

Firefox has a reader mode, which is marvelous for reading content on a cluttered page or in too small a typeface. Also on the plus side, it can automatically update to the current version (38.0.5 at the moment) and supports full screen mode.

Chrome: Up-to-Date but a RAM Hog

Google's Chrome browser is current at version 43.0.2357.81, and this version is compatible with all versions of OS X since 10.6 Snow Leopard. Caesar (video game). It's fast, but it's also a memory hog. One the plus side, you can run Chrome on Macs, Windows PCs, Linux, Chromebooks, iDevices, and Android gear.

It's also the most used browser on the market, although Safari eclipses it on Macs. It always updates itself to the latest version, so no worry about being left behind until Google drops Snow Leopard support.

Browser Overview

In the table below, browser size on disk is rounded up to the next full MB. HTML5 score is on a scale of 0-555. Full Screen indicates whether the browser supports full screen mode, which can be toggled using Cmd-Shift-F.

HTML5 Video notes whether H.264, Ogg Theora, and WebM are supported. 'All' means all 3 are.

Browser
Version
SizeHTML5
Score
Full
Screen
HTML5
Video
Camino 2.1.339 MB134nono
OmniWeb 5.11.276 MB205noH.264
Safari 5.1.1053 MB250noH.264
Stainless 0.82 MB250noH.264, WebM
Opera 25127 MB480noTheora, WebM
Roccat 4.914 MB267noH.264, WebM
Firefox 38175 MB467yesall
Chrome 43375 MB506yesall

Conclusion

There are a lot of factors you can use for choosing the best browser. In terms of speed, Stainless loads quickly. Camino, Stainless, and Roccat all subjectively feel pretty fast. Firefox and Chrome, not so much, and Chrome itself is over twice as large as Firefox.

Chrome takes top honors for HTML5 support, followed by Opera 25 and then Firefox. Roccat is a bit ahead of Safari and Stainless, but the big question is how well does each browser support the parts of HTML5 that are important to you, such a video codecs.

Honestly, it can't hurt to download and try several of these browsers. Regardless of which ones others view as best, you may find a new favorite for some specific uses, much as I am hooked on Stainless for WordPress work.

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