Life cycles for Mac computer models is a totally different issue and was not referred to in your original post.
The case referred to previously in this discussion about Snow Leopard getting an Apple App Store update was I suspect to both address a security issue and more importantly to ensure Snow Leopard could still access the App Store so as to be able to download an update to e.g. Based on this trend which has applied for the last few versions of OS X it would imply that once macOS Sierra is released updates for Mavericks will cease.Ĭurrently the average is for a new version of OS X nee macOS once a year, this therefore means a supported life-span of three years for each version. Therefore with the current version being El Capitan, the previous version being Yosemite, the previous - previous version would have been Mavericks and anything older than that is not going to get updates.
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Things are up to now (El Capitan) support in Mac OS X based hardware, from OWC. I've pointed out a fair site to see how Not that would be a closer idea of how things have been, to then extrapolate a pathĪhead based on previous methodology. Supported, there are other considerations.Įven if or when there is no word at all, that is a default communication.įor a futuristic answer without speculation one may seek a crystal ball or mystic incantation.
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