Max 7, Mac OS 10.?

vichug's icon

Hey, will Max 7 still work on my good-old-yet-reliable(kinda) 10.6.8 ? In the light of a lot of things that have ceased to function with their latest updates on this OS, I was wondering that ; and also if I was a lone fool of living in such a prehistoric era - Max Mac users, what OS are you working with ?

Jan M's icon

Hi vichug,
on Mavericks (10.9) and very satisfied. If nessecary i'd say upgrading to 10.8 as a min version. 10.7 is also not supported by apple anymore. so no (security) bug fixes on earlier versions ...
j

vichug's icon

is it really a problem that there is no more security fixes, as long as there is no known threat ? there is a lot of stuff that i won't be able to update if i ever upgrade, so i'd better delay an update until as late as possible.

Jan M's icon

I'd say that depends on what you are using the laptop for besides for creation. There are a number of potential exploits that were not fixed for 1.6. anymore. This is just out of my memory and i didn't verify it. I think there were issues with the HTTP protocol, the FontParser, the png/jpeg bug? the recently discovered bash/terminal bug ...
And isn't the latest Safari version available Safari 5? Well I am quite concerned/aware about the security on my main machine because I use it for practically everything. But do use older systems on other computers. So in my point of view i wouldn't do online banking or payments on 10.6.8 anymore. But I am sure there are many other points of views out the.

vichug's icon

i rarely use Safari, mostly on Firefox. You may be right on the security part however...