So what happens to Leopard?

[Steve-M]

Just curious, will Apple continue to support Leopard now that Snow Leopard is out?

 

[cluthz]

Just curious, will Apple continue to support Leopard now that Snow Leopard is out?

I guess they will, for awhile at least.
They will still apply security patches, but don't expect any big improvements.
Leopard is kinda old and I guess most problems have been ironed out.

SL is a really cheap upgrade, so only PPC users should have to remain using 10.5.x

 

[iBlue]

Good question. You would hope that they support it for at least another year or so since all their PPC users cannot use Snow Leopard, but I don't know. Apple doesn't show a lot of care when it comes to those sorts of things. It's all about the new new new! I imagine they will keep support for a short while yet before giving it a swift kick in its un-snowy big cat arse.

This is totally a guess.

 

[GoCubsGo]

We take it out back and shoot it.
*runs from PETA*

Really, I think Blue is right, no one knows but the hope is there will be support for at least another year. I don't like that they dropped PPC support when many PPC machines are cranking away just fine today.

 

[iBlue]

^ indeed.

this post is brought to you today by a 1.5 Ghz G4 powerbook, with leopard. 🙂

 

[Steve-M]

So maybe a year or so on security updates? Thats not to bad I guess. Thanks for the replies 🙂

 

[cjmillsnun]

They supported Tiger right up until the release of SL, so I suspect that Leopard will remain supported until 10.7 comes out.

 

[Amdahl]

So maybe a year or so on security updates? Thats not to bad I guess. Thanks for the replies 🙂

Tiger got about 22 months, which is a travesty.