Apple Ignores Snow Leopard Once Again

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CommanderFrank

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Get a clue Mac users: Apple hasn’t announced it outright, but all indicators show that Apple has decided that Snow Leopard’s retirement party is overdue and has been put on the ‘do not support’ list. Snow Leopard, meet Windows XP. :D

Perhaps Apple’s thinking is that there’s no reason for Snow Leopard users not to upgrade to OS X Mavericks, given that it’s now possible to upgrade directly from Snow Leopard to its latest OS—for free.
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Anyone with a 32-bit Mac, aka the original Intel Macs are stuck on Snow Leopard and cannot upgrade to Mavericks at any price short of replacing their system.
 
Sold my Mac Pro's years ago, never looked back.
 
Poik said:
Anyone with a 32-bit Mac, aka the original Intel Macs are stuck on Snow Leopard and cannot upgrade to Mavericks at any price short of replacing their system.
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Not true. Every Mac, even the 32-bit ones, that was upgradeable to Snow Leopard (10.6) can be upgraded to Mavericks, though they do need to have 2GB of RAM and most of them probably came with less and need a RAM upgrade.

Installing Mountain Lion (10.8) on older 32-bit Intel Macs

Installing Mavericks (10.9) on older 32-bit Intel Macs
 
Hurray click bait. Snow Leopard didn't get a security patch for SSL because it doesn't need one. Open SSL, baby.
 
And people complain about Microsoft's support life-cycle???

Snow Leopard only came out in August 2009 -- just two months before Windows 7 hit retail in Oct 2009. Apple is abandoning Snow Leopard -- Microsoft is still SELLING Windows 7!

Windows XP came out in 2001 and is finally going on the non-supported list in just over another month!
 
And Apple wonders why they have such a small penetration into the business marketspace????

This only confirms that any larger business would be utterly idiotic to mass deploy OS X -- the support cycle is simply too short.

For business, stability is a PLUS. Most businesses I deal with have only made the switch to Windows 7 from XP within the last year -- and many are actually only finally doing the switch this month. And I have a few that have legacy medical and industrial software that WILL NOT run on Windows 7 without major issues -- they are planning on sticking with Windows XP on most of their systems and just totally isolating those machine from the internet.
 
10.7 Lion is the highest anyone can upgrade a Mac with a 32 Bit UEFI to officially. You CAN upgrade them to Mavericks, but it is not officially supported, and it is NOT straight forward like a normal update.

And people complain about Microsoft's support life-cycle???

Snow Leopard only came out in August 2009 -- just two months before Windows 7 hit retail in Oct 2009. Apple is abandoning Snow Leopard -- Microsoft is still SELLING Windows 7!

Windows XP came out in 2001 and is finally going on the non-supported list in just over another month!
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Windows 7 only continues to be popular because of the lack of support of Windows 8.

Windows is also built-in on a completely different mindset in that the hardware model is completely open. Apples model is of course based on a narrow band of hardware and as a result they are able to bundle ALL drivers within the OS, which makes it extremely stabile and transportable.

To the consumer it's an excellent system when you first start off, but they turn on Apple when they get left out in the cold as the hardware cycle turns over.
 
So Apple is now trying to coerce people to upgrade to a new OS that's decidedly slower, filled with more rubbish and candy-coated icons, a still-borked smbx, broken Finder, and a calendar that doesn't know how to parse ics invites properly? Awesome.
 
evilsofa said:
Not true. Every Mac, even the 32-bit ones, that was upgradeable to Snow Leopard (10.6) can be upgraded to Mavericks, though they do need to have 2GB of RAM and most of them probably came with less and need a RAM upgrade.
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How many average mac lusers/hipsters would even try getting a hacked copy of 10.8/10.9 to run? Because, according to the forums you posted: it's the only way.
 
It'd be nice if Apple would just come out and tell everyone they're ending support (if they are). Why be so secretive about it. Most end-users are not going to figure it out on their own.
 
Inside_line said:
Who the hell ever used "save as" anyway? Retarded.
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Snow leopard is the last os to have "save as" featured in the file menu. For simplicity they just removed it so we wouldn't all get so confused. Further they even made auto save a standard feature so we don't forget to click save after we are done with our work.

What's next? Emails that write and send themselves? The macbook wheel IS coming!
 
Sp33dFr33k said:
It'd be nice if Apple would just come out and tell everyone they're ending support (if they are). Why be so secretive about it. Most end-users are not going to figure it out on their own.
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People are claiming that they have dropped support because they haven't released and patch for the SSL issue.

But the thing is that the SSL issue didn't affect Snow Leopard anyway.

Basically this is fud.
 
Spazturtle said:
People are claiming that they have dropped support because they haven't released and patch for the SSL issue.

But the thing is that the SSL issue didn't affect Snow Leopard anyway.

Basically this is fud.
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Inside_line said:
Snow leopard is the last os to have "save as" featured in the file menu. For simplicity they just removed it so we wouldn't all get so confused. Further they even made auto save a standard feature so we don't forget to click save after we are done with our work.

What's next? Emails that write and send themselves? The macbook wheel IS coming!
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Hold Alt and the Save As option comes back. But if pressing a key is too hard ten maybe you should switch to Windows 8.
 
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