where can I buy/ download Snow Leopard OS for my Macbook Pro so I can run PowerPC?

The Apple Store sells Snow Leopard on a DVD.

Buy an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard and your PPC apps on it.

Switching boot drives at restart only requires you hold down the option key and picking it.

On some MacBook Pros, doing that requires using an older Mac to install the system onto an external drive and then running the 10.6.8 combo updater on that drive. Other MacBook Pros can't be booted from 10.6 at all but can run Mac OS X Server 10.6 in emulation.

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What is the Model Identifier of your MacBook Pro?

Some models cannot boot into Snow Leopard.

What PowerPC apps do you need to run in Mt. Lion?

Your MacBook Pro model can't be booted to Snow Leopard; it can only run Mac OS X Server 10.6 in emulation.

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LG1984 wrote:

thanks for the response.

that is what i plan to do once i have the snow leopard OS.

unfortunately, they don't have it in the apple store (online).

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

Pete

If you are outside of the USA & Canada, the Apple Store will not ship you Snow Leopard Server. You must have someone in the USA or Canada purchase it for you and then trans-ship it to you, which, of course, will increase the shipping costs.

Snow Leopard Server for $19.99 + sales tax & shipping costs at 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753) - Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A (telephone orders only).

Another alternative is to purchase Snow Leopard client and install that into Parallels 8:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

This will give you an environment where you can run your PowerPC CDs.

TPB