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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1609875" data-attributes="member: 175845">We (my wife) still have and use a mid-late 2007 24&quot; iMac running SL 10.6.8 and 6GB RAM and have no troubles or concerns.Its hard drive decided to just quit and die when I was using it a few years ago, right in the middle of an afternoon for no reason at all.&nbsp; No question on replacing the HDD, which I did using a WD Black 7200RPM 1TB drive. No regrets at all and it runs quite well for what it's used for.But I really wonder why so many post that OS X SL 10.6.8 is no longer &quot;supported&quot; and could be a security risk. May be for some, but we're not included.There is absolutely no personal info or data on that iMac that someone couldn't find in a phonebook etc.&nbsp; Nada!!Besides which, it's behind two password protected routers, Firewall is On and enabled and even Little Snitch is installed and enabled, and even Firewall Stealth mode could be enabled if we were really paranoid.Apple even provided a security update in January 2014 and it's malware list still is being kept up to date.So other than any operator idiocity, which is highly unlikely, I'd say we are still quite safe I'd say.&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1609875, member: 175845"] We (my wife) still have and use a mid-late 2007 24" iMac running SL 10.6.8 and 6GB RAM and have no troubles or concerns. Its hard drive decided to just quit and die when I was using it a few years ago, right in the middle of an afternoon for no reason at all. No question on replacing the HDD, which I did using a WD Black 7200RPM 1TB drive. No regrets at all and it runs quite well for what it's used for. But I really wonder why so many post that OS X SL 10.6.8 is no longer "supported" and could be a security risk. May be for some, but we're not included. There is absolutely no personal info or data on that iMac that someone couldn't find in a phonebook etc. Nada!! Besides which, it's behind two password protected routers, Firewall is On and enabled and even Little Snitch is installed and enabled, and even Firewall Stealth mode could be enabled if we were really paranoid. Apple even provided a security update in January 2014 and it's malware list still is being kept up to date. So other than any operator idiocity, which is highly unlikely, I'd say we are still quite safe I'd say. ;) [/QUOTE]

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