Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
At the moment, Apple supports Lion, which is two versions back. But Lion is the last version of OS X for many Macs, just as Snow Leopard was previously. In other words, it seems to have shifted from supporting one version prior to two versions. Perhaps that's intentional, perhaps not.

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Phil Ewin.
, August 22, 2014 10:53 AM Subject: Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away At the moment, Apple supports Lion, which is two versions back. But Lion is the last version of OS X for many Macs, just as Snow Leopard was previously. In other words, it seems

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Jason White
Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com wrote: At the moment, Apple supports Lion, which is two versions back. But Lion is the last version of OS X for many Macs, just as Snow Leopard was previously. In other words, it seems to have shifted from supporting one version prior to two versions.

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Do you think i have to buy a new mac when Yosemite comes out? I have a mac from mid 2011 but i am not sure if it will work well when the new os comes out. Maybe i just have to wait and see. /A 22 aug 2014 kl. 12:09 skrev Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net: Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
If your Mac was made in 2007 or later and has a discrete GPU, you ought to be alright. It's the poor sods with Intel GMA950 who are in real trouble, because 64-bit drivers were never made for it; that means that Lion, which although it was a 64-bit OS could still start a 32-bit kernel, was the

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-22 Thread Kevin Barry
Should work just fine. At 08:26 AM 8/22/2014, you wrote: Hi! Do you think i have to buy a new mac when Yosemite comes out? I have a mac from mid 2011 but i am not sure if it will work well when the new os comes out. Maybe i just have to wait and see. /A 22 aug 2014 kl. 12:09 skrev Jason White

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-21 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Ah, yes. Gregg Keizer writing for Computerworld and the disgraceful end of Apple as we know it. If it bleeds, it reads, eh? But I'll believe it when I see it. FWIW, my first plastic Mac will likely fall due to Apple's obsolescence, in which case it should run either Snow Leopard or Windows

Re: The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-21 Thread Kevin Barry
Apple's standard policy is to support the current OS and one version back. All else before is cut off with some very rare exceptions. At 08:22 PM 8/21/2014, you wrote: Ah, yes. Gregg Keizer writing for Computerworld and the disgraceful end of Apple as we know it. If it bleeds, it reads, eh?

The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away

2014-08-20 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
The end of all OS X Lion support, patches included, is likely just weeks away by MacDailyNews [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]Apple is working its way toward releasing OS X Mountain Lion [sic Mavericks] 10.9.5, very likely the last non-security update for the 10-month old operating system, Gregg