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How to upgrade form Snow Leopard to Mavericks
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<blockquote data-quote="sago48" data-source="post: 1635296" data-attributes="member: 209649"><p>Rod I'm not sure why you want to know. I didn't ask for advice/help on this aspect of the issue - but I appreciate your engagement so here's my thinking on this.</p><p></p><p>Am I right that your view is that there's no "technical" reason for upgrading - you post suggests this when you mention 'security issues'. I've noticed that for example SL won't run newer versions of Safari, which he uses, and from the web I can see that there do seem to issues about SL and Apple support, but I haven't given it any thought really.</p><p></p><p>As I said this is about Yosemite, which I doubt my Dad will be able to adapt to (in my opinion as his personal carer and mac carer). This makes Mavericks the last of the useable OSs for him - and I as I said I discovered this when I recently bought my new mini running Mavericks. I'm betting that let's say he lives another 6 years or so, he'll have a better chance of a useable system if he has Mavericks than if he sticks with SL. And the sooner he makes the switch, the better.</p><p></p><p>Of course I didn't count on Apple's deleting Mavericks so soon, and my approach so far hasn't worked - the promised install disk hasn't materialised. And respondents to my post aren't clear (at least to me) on whether I can create an install disk from my mini - my main original question. It seems likely I can't. I've got a useable Lion dmg but that's a fair bit older than Mav and not much younger than SL. So I'll think again for a bit. Nothing spoiling, as they say. </p><p></p><p>If you think I'm wrong and SL will be fine for say another 6 years plus I'd be happy to leave things as they are. Other views on this welcome of course.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sago48, post: 1635296, member: 209649"] Rod I'm not sure why you want to know. I didn't ask for advice/help on this aspect of the issue - but I appreciate your engagement so here's my thinking on this. Am I right that your view is that there's no "technical" reason for upgrading - you post suggests this when you mention 'security issues'. I've noticed that for example SL won't run newer versions of Safari, which he uses, and from the web I can see that there do seem to issues about SL and Apple support, but I haven't given it any thought really. As I said this is about Yosemite, which I doubt my Dad will be able to adapt to (in my opinion as his personal carer and mac carer). This makes Mavericks the last of the useable OSs for him - and I as I said I discovered this when I recently bought my new mini running Mavericks. I'm betting that let's say he lives another 6 years or so, he'll have a better chance of a useable system if he has Mavericks than if he sticks with SL. And the sooner he makes the switch, the better. Of course I didn't count on Apple's deleting Mavericks so soon, and my approach so far hasn't worked - the promised install disk hasn't materialised. And respondents to my post aren't clear (at least to me) on whether I can create an install disk from my mini - my main original question. It seems likely I can't. I've got a useable Lion dmg but that's a fair bit older than Mav and not much younger than SL. So I'll think again for a bit. Nothing spoiling, as they say. If you think I'm wrong and SL will be fine for say another 6 years plus I'd be happy to leave things as they are. Other views on this welcome of course. [/QUOTE]
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