Support for Mac OSX 10.5

Mark Wilcox m_p_wilcox at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Feb 26 12:14:27 EST 2014


Tiemo said early 2007, so it's actually a 2006 (i.e. original intel model) MacBook right? The 2007 model was introduced mid-2007. Even so there are still plenty of folks online who say they have Snow Leopard running just fine on their 2006 MacBook - it seems the only reason you might not be able to is you bought the bottom spec model with only 512MB RAM? That can be upgraded, then you could run 10.6.

So, to clarify, almost every Mac that Apple made back to mid-2006 can run 10.6. The ones before that were PowerPC and there are very good reasons not to support that any more IMO.

My 2 cents on dropping 10.5 support is that it would also reduce the complexity for potential contributors to the engine. Don't underestimate the importance of that if LiveCode is to succeed as an open source project.

Personally I'm waiting for the promised new stuff and am really only interested in mobile, so dropping 10.5 support is obviously the best thing for me, since it gets the new stuff here sooner. :)

Mark 



On Wednesday, 26 February 2014, 16:38, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D <matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de> wrote:
 
So Apple sold you an upgrade for your MacBook and the upgrade cannot be installed?
Is it really a retail DVD and not a gray recovery DVD? 
What is support saying? I read in other forums that the white MacBook 2007
runs fine with SL.

Regards,

Matthias


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