Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 20% Macs vulnerable to attacks

Re:Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 20% Macs ... by louthy on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:31PM (#7314811)

Snow Leopard release date: August 28, 2009

Windows XP release date: October 25, 2001

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Re:Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 20% Macs ... by _zen on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:44PM (#7314917)

Also, hardware bought that had Windows XP on it would be ancient today. We're talking Pentium 4s here.

Mac hardware from 2009 is still very capable for what most people use it for: office suite, email and web browser.

(I could argue a optimized Windows XP computer from that era could still do well with today's software, but if someone is still using Windows XP on 10 year old hardware, it's probably running subpar)

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Re:Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 20% Macs ... by jonah on Thursday February 27, 2014 @08:57PM (#7316761)

Mac hardware from 2009? My early 2011 MacBook Pro came with Snow Leopard and it has an i7. It's still plenty fast enough to run several VMs, an IDE and do real(TM) work on it.

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Re:Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 20% Macs ... by ADent on Saturday March 01, 2014 @01:12PM (#7325353)

My work laptop w/XP is less than 4 years old and has an i5.

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