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If you're still using 10.5.x, this security update is actually not your biggest problem.
by coherentpony 13y ago
If you're still using 10.5.x, this security update is actually not your biggest problem.
- ProAm 13y agoWhat is their biggest problem?
- bananas 13y agoThat your computer is so old that you no longer look hip in Starbucks. Plastic MacBooks are so noughties!
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- coherentpony 13y ago>That your computer is so old that you no longer look hip in Starbucks. Plastic MacBooks are so noughties! I was actually thinking more in terms of security and support. PPC architectures are not very well supported nowadays, and haven't been for over 5 years. Perhaps longer. Sure, you can still run your machine on 10.5 and it might run really well still. That's no reason to trust it for mission critical tasks. God forbid if someone was using a OS X Server 10.5 and users trusted it with their credentials. Vanity was pretty low on my list, but I understand everyone's priorities are different.
- bananas 13y agoI was mocking the consumer perspective but obviously HN is too sensitive... Not sure I trust Apple with longevity. Windows XP from 2002 just hit the dust and I've got a decade out of RHEL. For something from 2007 to be a write off is not good IMHO. I thoroughly regret my MBP purchase for theae reasons.
- pja 13y agoBy the time Apple drops support for your hardware you have a decent chance of being able to install a current Linux distribution with no hiccups and full hardware support, so all is not completely lost.
- bananas 13y agoPossibly right but I don't see how a piece of hardware that is pretty much glued together (as of recent MBA and MBPs) is going to survive that long to be honest.
- mzr 13y agoConveniently enough, so is this Slashdot post.
- windsurfer 13y agoSupport has stopped. The latest update was 5 years ago. Most software doesn't support it anymore, including Chrome and Firefox.
- akjj 13y agoThere's a fork of Firefox ESR that supports OS X versions 10.4 and up: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoTurns out if you missed the 10.5 -> 10.6 or 10.7 upgrades, you appear to be hosed unless you can find some physical media for those releases, you can't go 10.5 -> 10.8 (never tried ->10.9, would not expect it to work).
- pja 13y agoGet hold of a 10.9 installer on a USB stick from a friend with a 10.9 Mac & restore /Users from backup after a wipe & fresh install of 10.9?
- coherentpony 13y agoI think this issue is that it might be the case the hardware isn't even supported on newer OS X releases.
- ams6110 13y agoYes they stopped building PPC support after 10.5
- coherentpony 13y agoNot just PPC. They also stopped support certain intel hardware too.
- ams6110 13y agoThat's true. The latest OSX releases won't install on some of the early Intel Macs. I've heard it's possible, with a certain amount of hacking, to get an early Intel MacPro for example to run 10.8 or maybe even 10.9 but it's unsupported.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoThat works but it's not exactly an easy upgrade path.
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- SeanLuke 13y agoYou do what you gotta do. 10.5.8 is the last OS X version which supported PPC.
- stock_toaster 13y agoRun Linux or one of the *BSD's on it?
- SeanLuke 13y agoWould that I could.
- coherentpony 13y agoAnd any Mac software you buy that still supports PPC is almost certainly not vendor-supported with security updates.
- yuhong 13y agoLuckily PowerPC exploits were pretty uncommon even back when it was current, partly because it was more difficult to create than x86 exploits.