Will OS 10.6.8 run on a new MacBook Pro

I use a late 2009, 27 inch iMac w.16 GBs of RAM and both Adobe CS3 and CS4 seemed to run fine for me on either OS X 10.8 or 10.9.

I mostly use Photoshop and InDesign with no major headaches.

Illy CS4 doesn't appear to give me issues either when I need to use it.

The only CS4 app that doesn't seem to work on OS X 10.9 is Adobe Version Cue.

Here's a website you can check for app compatibility.

http://roaringapps.com/apps

If you can upgrade your MacBook's OS X,

You can purchase a special download code to download and install OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion.

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion purchased emailed download code here.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion

Apple will send you an email for the special download code for the Mac App Store, for OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion within three days of purchasing the download code.

iMac (Mid-2007 or later)

MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),

MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)

MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)

Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)

Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)

Xserve (Early 2009)

Your Mac also needs:

OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed

2 GB or more of memory (I strongly advise, at least, 4 GBs of RAM or more)

8 GB or more of available space

If you want to upgrade to OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks instead, you would need to contact your "local" Apple Store to see if they can instal OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks for you as it is no longer available for initial download from the Mac App Store.

Before embarking on a major OS upgrade, it would be wise, advisable and very prudent if you have a good, working backup of your current system to an external connected and Mac formatted Flash drive OR externally connected USB, Thunderbolt or FireWire 800, Mac formatted hard drive. Then, use either OS X Time Machine app to backup your entire system to the external drive OR purchase, install and use a data cloning app, like CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, to make an exact and bootable copy (clone) of your entire Mac's internal hard drive. This step is really needed in case something goes wrong with the install of the new OS or you simply do not like the new OS, you have a very easy way/procedure to return your Mac to its former working state.

Next,

If you run any older Mac software from the earlier PowerPC Macs, then none of this software will work with the newer OS X versions (10.7 and onward). OS X Snow Leopard had a magical and invisible PowerPC emulation application, called Rosetta, that worked seamlessly in the background that still allowed older PowerPC coded software to still operate in a Intel CPU Mac.

The use of Rosetta ended with OS X Snow Leopard as the Rosetta application was licensed to Apple, from a software company called Transitive, which got bought out, I believe, by IBM and Appe could no longer secure their rights to continue to use Rosetta in later versions of OS X.

So, you would need to check to see if you have software on your Mac that maybe older than, say, 2006 or older.

If you have any commercial antivirus installed and/or hard drive cleaning apps installed on your Mac, like MacKeeper, CleanMyMac, TuneUpMyMac, MacCleanse, etc. now would be a good time to completely uninstall these apps by doing a Google search to learn how to properly uninstall these types of apps.

These types of apps will only cause your Mac issues later after the install of the new OS X version and you will have to completely uninstall these types of apps later.

Once you have determined all of this, you should be able to find the latest versions of OS X by clicking on the Mac App Store icon in the OS X Dock and then login to the Mac App Store using your Apple ID and password and if you purchased a download code, input that code.

You can then begin the download and installation process of installing the newer versions of OS X from the Mac App Store.

Good Luck!

Snow Leopard server. Call 1-800-692-7753 and order part number MC588Z/A. Cost is $19.99 + sales tax and shipping. You may be told it is no longer available, depending on who you talk to. Ask to talk to someone else or call back.

The latest version of the Macbook Pro which can run Snow Leopard is that of Early 2011 - MC700*/A, MC724*/A, MC721*/A, MC723*/A, or MC725*/A. These have the identifier MacbookPro 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 (different sizes) but those identifiers also apply to the late 2011 models which were issued with Lion - it's possible that they may have the same architecture and be able to run Snow Leopard. Later models won't be able to.

Why do you want to stay clinging to a nearly 10 year old operating system?

Other than the last Mozilla Firefox ESR version 45.9 web browser support, which is only a couple of months old, now, and the last and somewhat still secure supported web browser, there are no more secure web browser nor anymore security updates for OS X 10.6.8.

OS X 10.6.8 is a security vulnerable OS, now!

I left OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard two years, ago.

I have moved up to both OS X 10.8.5 and 10.9.5.

Nearly all of my older, legacy software still runs under these older Mac OS X versions and I have access to complete, up to date, secure web browser for these "newer" OS X versions.

Is it third party software that is holding you back from moving up from OS X Snow Leopard?

Not natively, no.

Maybe using vitualization software.

Only the server version of it can be run in emulation. If you need it, try phoning the online Apple Store.

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I forgot to mention, if you use older Photoshop plugins that were for older, PowerPC Macs, some of these older Photoshop plugins may no longer work on newer versions of OS X.