Snow Leopard, released in August 2009 for $29, was the Mac OS of 2010: brushed-metal was gone, the Dock was a 3D shelf, Exposé and Spaces managed windows, and Safari 5 arrived in June. In October Apple previewed Mac OS X Lion and the Mac App Store, which opened in January 2011.
- Vendor
- Apple
- Version
- 10.6
- Released
- 28 August 2009
- Type
- os
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