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.

Changes from 10.5

 * At login, you are placed right at the desktop (at least from an upgrade), 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.

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 a long 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.