When Mac OS X Snow Leopard was just a rumour it surfaced that the operating system could be built just for Intel hardware, and be the first version of Mac OS X to drop support for the ageing PowerPC processors.
Today LogicielMac confirms this with a screenshot of the minimum requirements to install the developers previews of Snow Leopard handed out at WWDC this week.
The requirements are as follows:
- An Intel Processor
- An internal, external, or shared DVD drive
- At least 512 MB of RAM
- Display connected to an Apple-supplied video card
- 9GB of disk space, or 12GB for developer tools
Snow Leopard is being touted as a performance, stability and security release and is expected to ship "within a year."