Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Re. my suggestion that it may be possible for older Macs to stay safe by upgrading to OS X 10.6: Looks like I had more faith in Apple than their decisions warrant, as they just knifed the baby, and 19% of Mac users along with it: Apple Retires Snow Leopard Support, Leaves 1 In 5 Macs In The

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-27 Thread stephen barncard
like Lion and Mountain Lion, Mavericks doesn’t cost a thing. It costs a LOT if one can run 32 bit any more… more bricks on the shelf. Maybe Apple can shut up for a while now that they've forced everyone to 64 bit. It wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't tried to axe popular apps with completely

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tiemo Hollmann wrote: Hi Matthias, thats what I did, and the installer of snow leopard told me, my hardware is out of date and incompatible. I'm sorry to hear that. Apple makes good computers, but their costs average about twice that of PCs. Good components and all that so I'm not making a

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
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Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/02/14 18:53, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Though I can follow the arguments for concentrating the efforts on new and faster platforms, I actually can't believe that only 3,8% of Mac users would be affected (if you count notebooks to desktops). I myself have beside my iMac a MacBook from around

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-25 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 25.02.2014 at 17:53 Uhr +0100 Tiemo Hollmann TB apparently wrote: Though I can follow the arguments for concentrating the efforts on new and faster platforms, I actually can't believe that only 3,8% of Mac users would be affected (if you count notebooks to desktops). I myself have beside my