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It will be interesting to see these companies compete with each other as they attempt to focus their user-base on the latest OS version while not alienating those with stable, but outdated hardware from which the users desire to run a modern browser (such as Chrome) to act as a utility terminal or 3 rd monitor.
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Under the hood enhancements to improve security and stability are welcome, but the new "flat" design and lack of perspective in the UI are less pleasing and not as easy to use (for this user).Īlthough Microsoft has recently adopted the free OS model, Windows has traditionally been somewhat better at retaining features and UI treatments loved by lagging minorities (Classic Start Menu anyone?) who just want their workflows not to be interrupted annually for no technical reason such as security or stability. It is pretty great that Apple has transitioned to free OS updated bringing major new goodies every year or so, as others above have mentioned what is less great is losing features and usability to the latest design trend. As a developer, i miss the drawer too, but I also understand why its gone. Apple has moved on to a split view controller lately it is more inline with iOS and pretty much every other OS. EVERYTHING used to be based on it at one point. The side panel you described is called the drawer. (At the start of every semester of college, since this was pre-smartphone, I'd put my class schedule into iCal and print out a copy to carry around so that I could look at where/when I had to be until I'd gotten the new semester's schedule down pat it was definitely more of a pain in the ass in 10.5 than it was in 10.4.) Sure, it looked "cleaner and prettier" I guess, but it made creating a lot of calendar events at once a huge chore. In 10.5, they switched to making you click right-click->get-info to see more details, and you had to push a second get info to edit stuff like location. In Tiger, all of the side panel both presented you with ALL of the information about an event at a glance, and also made it easy to create the information in the first place if you were creating an event. Another example is what they did to iCal going from 10.4 to 10.5. I don't really get Apple's seeming obsession with coming up with something great and then crippling the functionality of it over time. I know another reason is that Spaces was really superior to Mission Control. Promoted Commentsīeyond general curmudgeoniness, some users stick with it because SL was the last version to support Rosetta and PPC apps.
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Applications are leaving 10.6 behind and the platform hasn't received a security update in well over two years.
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If you can upgrade and you don't have some niche piece of software or hardware that won't work under newer OS X versions, at this point you probably should.
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You can upgrade directly from Snow Leopard to any newer version of OS X, including the current El Capitan, and the Mac App Store is the main delivery method for those upgrades. Rather, it allows Apple to continue offering modern OS X versions to the Snow Leopard users whose Macs can run newer versions.
This doesn't mean that Snow Leopard is suddenly supported again. Either way, if you're still running 10.6, fire up your software updaters for the first time in years because Apple has just issued a small update to "ensure future compatibility with the Mac App Store."
Some of those people will be using Macs that aren't compatible with newer versions of OS X, and others will be sticking around because of their personal preferences (or spite, or stubbornness). Five new versions of OS X have been released since then, but NetApplications data says that some five percent of the total Mac userbase continues to soldier on with version 10.6. Snow Leopard is fondly remembered by many longtime Mac users, both because it was a remarkably refined release and because it was the last version produced before Apple really started porting iOS features over to the Mac. Further Reading Snow Leopard updates are probably done-here are your OS X upgrade options