Mac OS X Snow Leopard build 10A96

Mac OS X Snow Leopard build 10A96 is the official developer preview build of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the earliest known build as of 2022. The build's CD was sent to all attendees of the Worldwide Developer's Conference of 2008. It remains mostly unchanged from Leopard, and as such it is able to run on PowerPC machines; one of two Snow Leopards builds being fully able to run on them (of which the installation notes state is an unsupported configuration).

Changes from 10.5

 * From an upgrade, at login you are placed right at the desktop and the Setup Assistant launches from the desktop directly. This would be reverted in later builds.
 * The install DVD includes an early version of Boot Camp 3.0.
 * Automatic crash reporting is enabled.
 * A new edition of Address Book is added, supporting Entourage 2007. The original Leopard release is retained for compatibility reasons.

Bugs and quirks

 * The layout of the install DVD's icons would be off-center from their normal positions.
 * On high-end Intel machines, there is an approximate 5-minute delay between the desktop loading and input devices being functional. This behavior does not exist on PowerPC machines.
 * Resolutions are locked to your monitor's native resolution.