Alan Lees wrote:
stick with Snow Leopard until what?
Until the machine drops dead. 🙂
I am happy at the moment running SL but it wont last forever
Yes it will, until the machine drops dead that is.
If Apple drops support, which they won't soon because nearly 50% of OS X users are on Snow Leopard due to legacy software reasons, you can always install Deep Freeze, which upon reboot will set the altered bits back to the frozen state, thus if there was malware, there will be none after the reboot. 😉
Files are saved into non-frozen area or off the machine.
Firefox will still provide updates for as long as there is a substantial amount of that OS X version market share, which there is currently a great deal now and will remain so for many years before dwindling down to below 10%, even then there are other browsers and the web will function almost the same.
so is the 'most advanced operating system' going down the toilet?
In 10.7 and 10.8 it certainly is, why Scott Forstall was fired and hardware designer Jonny Iv'es is also doing human UI.
So if you want to wait out the abortion of the Lions for what's coming next and make your decision then, your most certainly welcome to join the huge crowd. 🙂
I'm kind of leaning towards Windows 7 myself, at least I know that won't change (and all my software with it) until 2020.
And in a virtual machine, I can run Windows 7 under Snow Leopard until 2020. It's the Internet where malware comes from, so Win 7 is used online for that and thus I have all my paid for Snow Leopard software working just fine until the machine drops dead, regardless if Apple drops support for 10.6.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?
By 10.9 or 11.0 we should know better what Apple is doing, but I don't think people are going to like it much.