Mac App Store Update For Snow Leopard

> Downloading Mac OS X from Mac App Store. That way of downloading Mac OS X updates and new apps was introduced with Snow Leopard and means that anyone with a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or earlier can’t actually access the Mac App Store to download anything. Apple has released a Mac App Store update for OS X Snow Leopard users, which “ensures future compatibility” and is recommended for all users of the operating system. This update, which comes in at 3.5MB, will include the following improvements.

Further Reading Snow Leopard is fondly remembered by many longtime Mac users, both because it was a remarkably refined release and because it was the last version produced before Apple really started porting iOS features over to the Mac. Five new versions of OS X have been released since then, but says that some five percent of the total Mac userbase continues to soldier on with version 10.6.

Fun 3d games for mac. Some of those people will be using Macs that aren't compatible with newer versions of OS X, and others will be sticking around because of their personal preferences (or spite, or stubbornness). Either way, if you're still running 10.6, fire up your software updaters because Apple to 'ensure future compatibility with the Mac App Store.'

This doesn't mean that Snow Leopard is suddenly supported again. Rather, it allows Apple to continue offering modern OS X versions to the Snow Leopard users whose Macs can run newer versions. You can upgrade directly from Snow Leopard to any newer version of OS X, including, and the Mac App Store is the main delivery method for those upgrades. If you can upgrade and you don't have some niche piece of software or hardware that won't work under newer OS X versions, at this point you probably should.

And the platform hasn't received a security update in well over two years. Promoted Comments • Ars Praefectus.