Apple stops support for OS X Snow Leopard
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Apple appears to have pulled the plug on support for OS X Snow Leopard, leaving a fifth of Macs vulnerable to attack.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/387346/apple-quietly-pulls-support-for-os-x-snow-leopard
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/387346/apple-quietly-pulls-support-for-os-x-snow-leopard
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chances are any system that is currently running SL can and should have been upgraded to Lion 10.7
anyone still running a PowerPC mac (and those numbers will be very small) that is limited to SL really can't expect support to continue forever.
Has it?
As Apple doesn't publish a support lifecycle of any kind, people simply can't tell.
it's easy to work it out based on anecdotal evidence.
the trend has always been 3 release cycles.
I'm using a MacBook Pro, not a PowerBook but because it only has a Core Duo chip it won't upgrade past Snow Leopard. If it does cause problems later on I will simply switch to A Linux Distro.
PPC wasn't supported on Snow Leopard.... Snow Leopard was however, the last release that supported 32bit Intel CPUs* (Core Solo and Core Duo). I believe there were also some Macs that even if they had a suitable CPU (eg. Core2Duo) only had a 32bit board/efi which caused the 10.7 upgrade to fail.
*Early builds of 10.7 supported 32bit Macs via a workaround but this got plugged on the final release.
Snow Leopard didn't run on PPC, but it was the last version to support PPC via Rosetta. It's for that reason I still keep it around on my MacBook Air.
£15 is a bargain.
spread that cost over the yrs youve been using Osx and add the yrs ahead usage you will get.
Then £15 is worth it
Agreed £15 is reasonable for an OS upgrade. Although they've changed tack now and Mavericks is free. And once you get that, the latest versions of the iWork and ilife apps are free.
If I remember too, I had to buy SL on CD to update Leopard, then immediately download and update to Lion, then updated to Mountain Lion when that was released. Had to pay for SL, Lion and ML upgrades. Over the life of the system the cost is reasonable I think.
My advice is if you have a system that shipped with SL, you most certainly can upgrade to the latest OS (just whack in some additional RAM… maybe an SSD too
Apple seem to be allowing their users to upgrade their Mac Mini if they want to. There's an easily removable cover on the bottom that when opened, shows the memory. Saw this on YouTube.
The OS is really just a way to get you to buy their hardware which is where they make the serious money so it doesn't make much sense to keep supporting it too long.
I agree.
I've got an old ibook G4 that still running 10.4.11 'Tiger', so it's way out of date. :eek:
And yet it dates from 2003/04, so is younger than XP machines which are only now losing support.
Mind you it's only switched on every couple of weeks, and I rarely go online with it, so I'm not too worried about the security of it
I did try an appropriate Ubuntu live CD on it a while back, and everything worked except the sound.
But being powerPC I'd be very limited in what would be compatible.
Yeah, I realise that their main aim is to get their hardware sold. I didn't make the connection before with stopping support for a 5-year-old OS and people having to buy new hardware.
Yep, Apple works in a different way to MS, ok MS do sell hardware now, but windows will work on other machines, Mac Os won't.
Yeah, i know you can get it to work, but it is not meant to.
i am pretty sure MS would have dropped Xp years ago if they could have, but releasing a Os that very few people liked (Vista) did not really help. Maybe if vista was what Windows 7 is, Xp support may have been dropped years ago.
I didn't think there was that much wrong with Vista. I think Windows 8 is the OS that Microsoft have cocked-up. Why they removed the start menu, I don't know. If they wanted to experiment with a different layout in an OS, they should have made two. They then could have just sat back and let the sales figures tell them if they should have carried on making the OS that Windows 8/8.1 has, as well as the design that people are used to. I'm surprised they didn't think of this.
The last "Snow Leopard" OS update (10.6.8) was in June 2011. That's when "support" really stopped.
Vulnerable to which attack? There's nothing out there (unless you are daft enough to install malware yourself).
What a naive world you live in.
Ha! Ha! Seriously? Okay, a Mac is probably more secure than Windows, but don't go thinking that there's nothing out there that can attack the Mac OS.
You're getting mixed up. Snow Leopard was the last version to support Rosetta if needed for apps programmed for PowerPC. Leopard was the last OS to support PowerPC architecture. I should know this because my PowerPC iMac G5 does not run Snow Leopard.
Have a Google, you'll see that it's true.