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I have done this. In early 2009 I bought an octo mac pro with Snow Leopard and 6 GB of RAM. Although I have reloaded Snow Leopard thrice, it remains the exact

by rsync 11y ago

I have done this. In early 2009 I bought an octo mac pro with Snow Leopard and 6 GB of RAM. Although I have reloaded Snow Leopard thrice, it remains the exact same configuration: same mac pro, same 8 GB RAM, same Snow Leopard. I have not run into any problems whatsoever. I run a perfectly modern browser with 30+ tabs open, I run multiple guests in VMWare Fusion and I don't miss having the app store at all. In a few months, this will be seven years of platform stability. I have enjoyed it immensely. Further, provided nothing too sticky comes up with continuing to run Snow Leopard, I think I can add one of those bootable PCIe SSDs and max out my ram and run this to the 10 year mark.

aidenn0 11y ago
Sadly my wife's macbook could only take 2GB of RAM, so we had to get her a new one; this means no more AppleWorks; I'm going to have to get her Bento to import her databases.
aidos 11y ago
I was using the same setup as this for years. My laptop was stolen about 6 months ago so I got a new retina machine. I've just resigned myself to living with instability. Network dropouts that can only be resolved by restarting the whole machine. Occasional system crashes. Sluggish interface behaviour vs the old OS (which is insane given how much more modern the hardware is). One of the few reasons I actually had considered updating in the past was to get the latest 1password. It's a pretty thin silver lining, but it's something!
blub 11y ago
Isn't SL full of security holes at this point? Or do you not connect it to the network? I find this a big problem with Mac OS X, if you're not on latest, you're guaranteed to be insecure.
- wtallis 11y ago
  If you're running it on your own LAN behind a firewall and using a current Firefox, the attack surface is pretty small.
yuhong 11y ago
Snow Leopard was not released in early 2009
- wtallis 11y ago
  The "early 2009" probably refers to the model of Mac Pro, which might have been bought at any point in the first year after Snow Leopard was released.
andrewgleave 11y ago
I have a first-gen quad-core Mac Pro (2006) running Yosemite on an SSD. An excellent machine that has provided amazing value and is still my primary development box.
avn2109 11y ago
Snow Leopard was pretty much the peak of the OSX's, IMHO. If for no other reason that they hadn't yet broken Expose/Spaces and called it "Mission Control."
- wtallis 11y ago
  And it was before they killed Front Row to force you to buy a separate box to do home theater duty. And before they broke full-screen apps. 10.7 kicked off a round of experimentation that really should have been optional to the end user, as most of that stuff has only recently started to settle down into something usable.
ido 11y ago
Unfortunately I had to upgrade at some point because apple likes to make newer versions of xcode stop working on older versions on os x... As a point of contrast, I run visual studio 2015 on windows 7 (a contemporary of snow leopard), and in fact I'm pretty sure it would run just fine on (14 years old!) windows xp too.
- yuhong 11y ago
  2010 was last version of VS that run on XP.

by rsync 11y ago

aidenn0 11y ago

Sadly my wife's macbook could only take 2GB of RAM, so we had to get her a new one; this means no more AppleWorks; I'm going to have to get her Bento to import her databases.

aidos 11y ago

I was using the same setup as this for years. My laptop was stolen about 6 months ago so I got a new retina machine. I've just resigned myself to living with instability. Network dropouts that can only be resolved by restarting the whole machine. Occasional system crashes. Sluggish interface behaviour vs the old OS (which is insane given how much more modern the hardware is). One of the few reasons I actually had considered updating in the past was to get the latest 1password. It's a pretty thin silver lining, but it's something!

blub 11y ago

Isn't SL full of security holes at this point? Or do you not connect it to the network? I find this a big problem with Mac OS X, if you're not on latest, you're guaranteed to be insecure.

wtallis 11y ago
If you're running it on your own LAN behind a firewall and using a current Firefox, the attack surface is pretty small.

yuhong 11y ago

Snow Leopard was not released in early 2009

wtallis 11y ago
The "early 2009" probably refers to the model of Mac Pro, which might have been bought at any point in the first year after Snow Leopard was released.

andrewgleave 11y ago

I have a first-gen quad-core Mac Pro (2006) running Yosemite on an SSD. An excellent machine that has provided amazing value and is still my primary development box.

avn2109 11y ago

Snow Leopard was pretty much the peak of the OSX's, IMHO. If for no other reason that they hadn't yet broken Expose/Spaces and called it "Mission Control."

wtallis 11y ago
And it was before they killed Front Row to force you to buy a separate box to do home theater duty. And before they broke full-screen apps. 10.7 kicked off a round of experimentation that really should have been optional to the end user, as most of that stuff has only recently started to settle down into something usable.

ido 11y ago

Unfortunately I had to upgrade at some point because apple likes to make newer versions of xcode stop working on older versions on os x... As a point of contrast, I run visual studio 2015 on windows 7 (a contemporary of snow leopard), and in fact I'm pretty sure it would run just fine on (14 years old!) windows xp too.

yuhong 11y ago
2010 was last version of VS that run on XP.