Apple support for Snow Leopard

We cannot predict what Apple will do. Usually Apple gives full support to OS systems until they are superceded by two generations. As of now, that would be OSX10.7 and OSX 10.8. As Snow Leopard is 10.6 that seems to say it all.

So you should at least be prepared. The only exceptions as far as I can see are likely to be matters dealing with serious malware infections like flashback.

All the same,Snow Leopard is generally recognised as the best OS so far. I run it and intend to continue running it.

None of us here would know the complete answer.

There may be some security updates for Snow Leopard users but there will never be a 10.6.9 update.

According to their support page, they're supporting everything from Leopard forward. Whether or not that includes updates is a different issue.

Hi Baltwo,

Hooray! Hope you're right.

I have no say in the mater, just reporting what's on their site. I compute w/SL and play with the iOS'd Lion and ML, since most of that stuff is useless for me, seeing that I don't have any iOS thingys, am not on a network, so no sharing, and disdain WiFi, since all it does is add EMR/EMI to the airways.

baltwo wrote:

According to their support page, they're supporting everything from Leopard forward.

The last update for Leopard on PPC Macs was 6/23/11 with a Security and a Java update. Intel Macs got the Flashback remover/Java plug-in disabler and Adobe Flash Player disabler on 5/14/12 (which was totally out of character for Apple), but no real fix for Java.

From the support page it would appear that they'll dedicate some web site space for Leopard, but probably little else.

…and would have prefered to stick with Snow Leopard

So, why didn't you? I compute with SL and play with the iOS-like Lion and ML, since they don't bring much to the computing arena.😉

I agree with you I have several G4 and two G5 imacs one of which died due to bad capacitors.

When I lost BBC ipayer i was gutted and I don't know why.

I wrote to the BBC who could only suggest an unsupported and none Apple bug fix from a man in Texas.

I also was disappointed when one of my machines ate my 10 x user OSX PPC install disk and the replacement install DVD apple sent didn't work.

That was a waste of £30

I even wonder what will happen when I next try and install an OSX system on my PPCs and ask it to update.

The issues is these machines used to work well so why have all the updates made them redundant