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We shouldn't imagine it's time to throw out your work horse just yet but it's probably a sign of things to come.

Snow Leopard sees Apple cut off their PowerPC machines which include the iBooks, Power Macs, PowerBooks, the G3-G5 iMacs, the G4 Mac Mini all the eMacs. So, long as your machine runs on an Intel CPU, you can. So, don't be too disappointed if you buy and don't notice much difference at first. Many of the improvements are under the hood with improvements in performance and efficiency rather large graphical changes to the front end user experience. Snow Leopard is really only an ostensibly subtle upgrade to the current version. At the moment, most people will be using Leopard, which is Mac OS X version 10.5, and Snow Leopard is Mac OS X version 10.6. With the help of a Mac IT support service, any company will be able to successfully ensure the security of their computer system.SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT What is Snow Leopard?įirst up, if you hadn't gathered, Snow Leopard is simply the sexy name for the latest version of the Mac operating system. "Now that Snow Leopard is no longer being patched, the vulnerabilities hackers find could be used to take over a computer, spy on users and steal sensitive information."įor a business that was using Snow Leopard, a system wide update can seem daunting. "But from a security standpoint, upgrading to an operating system that receives regular updates is the smart thing to do," the article reads. The issue for Apple users is that 20 percent of them still use Snow Leopard, citing that it still works fine or that they do not like the direction that Apple went with the newer operating systems. However, there was an interesting caveat to the update: there wasn't one for OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard.Īccording to an article from Entrepreneur, this confirms speculation that Apple is no longer supporting the older operating system, instead focusing on Mavericks (OS X 10.9), Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) and Lion (OS X 10.7).Ĭompanies stopping security support for an older operating system-Snow Leopard was released on June 8, 2009-is not unheard of, as it cost time and money to upgrade. This came in the wake of the announcement that a massive security flaw has been discovered in both iOS and Mac OS X operating systems.

Last week, we covered the latest security upgrade that was released by Apple. If these are security upgrades, they should be upgraded quickly, to make sure your system remains safe from the latest forms of attack. We have all sat down at our computer to be notified that there is a software update that needs to be downloaded.