Snow Leopard Server

Is Snow Leopard Server still available from Apple?

Posted on Jan 24, 2020 2:07 PM

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Jan 26, 2020 9:42 AM in response to relh

At one point they were selling the SL Server version by phone only through the business division. Meaning you couldn't buy it directly through the Apple website. I just told them I was buying it for the company I work for and I didn't have to have an actual business account. I don't know if they've discontinued doing it this way by now, but my guess is that they have stopped selling it all together. You could try and call the business phone number and see. It's at the bottom of this page. https://www.apple.com/retail/business/


I went ahead and bought the disk several years ago when they were offering it that way, since it was only $20 and knew I might need it in the future (mainly to run FreeHand MX in a VM, since we have over two decades of graphics files in this format). Even if you found an installer, unlike other versions of the OS, the SL Server version requires a serial number to activate. So it may even be dubious to buy a used disk online from someplace like Amazon or eBay.

Jan 24, 2020 10:14 PM in response to Kappy

Thanks, Kappy. I am aware that Snow Leopard is obsolete. However, I have a handful of apps (also 'obsolete') that I can run on an 'obsolete' 2011 iMac that can still run Snow Leopard from a separate partition or external drive but that I cannot run using newer macOS versions such as High Sierra. Because I anticipate having to upgrade to a newer Mac sooner or later, the only way to keep using the legacy apps is to use virtualization software such as Parallels, VMWare, etc. Unfortunately, Apple does not allow available virtualization software to load Snow Leopard Client (for which I have disks, by the way) but apparently does allow loading Snow Leopard Server (which is the version I asked about in my post). Since I don't want to pay outrageous multi-hundred dollar prices such as found on eBay, I thought I would ask if anyone on this forum knows how to get SL Server from Apple or some other reasonable source.

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