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I assume you're referring to the 30% of Windows users (XP) that will be left unsupported and unprotected in April of this year?

• louthy 13y ago
  Snow Leopard release date: August 28, 2009 Windows XP release date: October 25, 2001
  • _zen 13y ago
    Also, hardware bought that had Windows XP on it would be ancient today. We're talking Pentium 4s here. Mac hardware from 2009 is still very capable for what most people use it for: office suite, email and web browser. (I could argue a optimized Windows XP computer from that era could still do well with today's software, but if someone is still using Windows XP on 10 year old hardware, it's probably running subpar)
    • jonah 13y ago
      Mac hardware from 2009? My early 2011 MacBook Pro came with Snow Leopard and it has an i7. It's still plenty fast enough to run several VMs, an IDE and do real(TM) work on it.
    • ADent 13y ago
      My work laptop w/XP is less than 4 years old and has an i5.
• jokoon 13y ago
  windows xp was released very long ago, snow leopard is much more recent. I guess you would compare OSX version with service packs though, but I don't think that's fair. Honestly Apple is playing the obsolescence card much more aggressively than microsoft, because they can. I installed Mavericks on my 2GB RAM macbook pro, and my laptop is already obsolete, it's very sluggish. I would GLADLY trade mavericks for windows XP. And I'm sure Windows 7 runs very well with that amount of ram.