Mac App Store update for SL Users! How awesome is this?!

[Mr Downtown]

silvarios wrote:
many (most?) apps on the Mac app store no longer support Snow Leopard

I'm a little confused. Why would the OS on my computer affect what apps I can buy? Don't those run on a completely separate CPU (my phone)?

[GGD]

Mr Downtown wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
many (most?) apps on the Mac app store no longer support Snow Leopard

I'm a little confused. Why would the OS on my computer affect what apps I can buy? Don't those run on a completely separate CPU (my phone)?
Different App Stores for different devices / operating systems

Mac App Store - Apps for Macs running OS X
iTunes App Store - Apps for iPhones, etc. running iOS

This update was for the Mac App Store.

[richorlin]

I fail to understand why someone would be using an OS that is five generations old. If you are running SL, you are at least using an Intel Mac and a newer OS will install on it. You may not be able to use El Capitan, but surely you can move up to Lion or Mountain Lion.

[$tevie]

No, having an Intel Mac does not mean you can automatically install a newer OS. Just ask the woman who owns an iMac stuck on SL.

[Lew Zealand]

Intel Core Duos like my BlackBook are stuck at OS 10.6.8.

And any Mac that can run Mountain Lion can run El Capitan (yes assuming you have 2GB RAM installed), so there's no need to stop at 10.8.x. If you don't like the UI changes, at least going to Mavericks gives a UI experience not totally different than OS 10.5+.

[space-time]

richorlin wrote:
I fail to understand why someone would be using an OS that is five generations old. If you are running SL, you are at least using an Intel Mac and a newer OS will install on it. You may not be able to use El Capitan, but surely you can move up to Lion or Mountain Lion.

10.6.8 was very good

10.7 sucked

10.8 sucked a little less

10.9.5 is also good, almost as good as 10.6.8, but it has some annoying things. I does not run PPC code. Save as is gone (unless you press Option). And a few other little things.

I didn't try 10.10 and 10.11 and I don't plan to. I read enough complains here to make me stay away.

Hope that 10.12 is good again.

updates ever year are just too much, too often.

I liked the 2-3 year cycle we had before. In fact a 2.5 year cycle would be perfect for me.

[Mr Downtown]

SL's the last OS that will run FreeHand, which was my bread and butter for many years. I still spend about 15 percent of my working time in it. However, it's less of a need with each passing year, and the new roomier SSD raises the possibility of running a VM for the occasional need.

[wave rider]

$tevie wrote:
No, having an Intel Mac does not mean you can automatically install a newer OS. Just ask the woman who owns an iMac stuck on SL.

Or me and my late 2008 MBP that refused to upgrade from SL...

[silvarios]

richorlin wrote:
I fail to understand why someone would be using an OS that is five generations old. If you are running SL, you are at least using an Intel Mac and a newer OS will install on it. You may not be able to use El Capitan, but surely you can move up to Lion or Mountain Lion.

Lion was garbage for me. If I'm just doing a few basic things, it works okay, but when I tried to use Preview for anything substantial, like opening a single TIFF file, it would slow wayyyyyy downnnnnn.

I'm running Snow Leopard on the one Mac that still has something useful to do.

Edit: Not that I think the Mac App Store is that useful in general, I don't, and in particular, the Mac App Store isn't very useful for Snow Leopard users.

[Bill in NC]

Snow Leopard for PPC applications.

I'm getting ready to move to 10.9.5 (IMHO the first decent version after 10.6.8), but will keep SL via Parallels or other emulator.