I use it to produce and mix and record (Ableton)… my soundcard is a MOTU Ultralite Mk3įor the plug-ins to work, I need to update to at least OS 10.8 If it's of any relevance, the model I've got is an early 2011 Macbook Pro 8,2 quadcore 'Core i7' 2.2 15'. which is making me a little nervous (because I never update unless it's necessary - which means I'm now running OS 10.6.8 - which has been very reliable for me, hence why i've never updated) recently i've fallen in love with a few plug-ins and they're going to require me to update the OS to at least 10.8 …. Let's see - I hope AI is not right with it's 'the last update' prediction this time - it would't really look nice for Apple.It has been years since I've updated the OS on my Macbook. 5 years after it stopped shipping or so) is one of the steps a software company has to take to be taken seriously. So supporting a 'previous' release of an OS, at least with critical bug fixes and security update, including a formal commitment on how long this will be done (i.e.

Surely Apple has a more-ready-to-upgrade userbase, but if you look around and see how many XP or even NT4 boxes are still around, you get the idea. App upgrades of that magnitude don't happen quickly and they can be quite costly.

Many people will have similar reasons not to upgrade, especially when using pro-grade graphics, design, music and other tools. It won't be upgraded, but I need to keep those years around to look up records or if an audit comes up, so unless I find a legal and working way to run a VM with Snow, I'll not touch the OS install on that box. I'll leave one of my four Macs on Snow Leopard, because it runs a German accounting software that, until it's 2009 version, only ran in Rosetta emulation because of it's older Filemaker base. the no-longer-existing services in Server or the missing Rosetta support), some people will have to stick. Second, especially with an upgrade that technically cannot run everything that worked before (e.g. First of all, some older hardware may be too slow or not have enough capacity to run Lion, but may still be sufficient for real world use. The user base has now certainly grown to a point where not everyone can simply upgrade to a new major release. I'd sincerely hope Apple will continue to upgrade Snow Leopard with bug fixes and updated peripherial hardware support like print drivers, etc.

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