![]() ![]() Overall, Mac OS X Snow Leopard is actually a lot more usable 12 years later than you’d expect. ![]() Like the Windows XP, this computer also has a lot of licensed software on it from the previous user – Microsoft Office 2011, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Toast Titanium 11, and VMWare Fusion, just to cite a few (don’t expect me to actually be using VMWare Fusion on THIS – it only has 2 GB of RAM.) Unfortunately, this computer has an i386 processor, being the original MacBook, so no 64-bit software for me. I have the MarsEdit 3 free trial installed on this right now – going to buy when it seems viable. ![]() So, I install Adium, and add my GTalk account to it. All my friends are on Google Hangouts, and Google Hangouts is fortunately backwards-compatible with Google Talk. The experience is very conductive, and it’s been good enough that I’ve switched entirely to the Mac as my main computer. It opened Google Drive without a problem, and the Google Docs editing experience was the same as what we’ve come to expect on modern platforms. It’s compatible enough that I was fairly satisfied with my browsing experience on Snow Leopard. A following loyal enough to backport compatibility with the modern web back to Mac OS X Snow Leopard in the form of a browser called InterWeb, which happens to just be a backport of the Firefox 60 ESR with compatibility furthered a little. Hmmm… well, Snow Leopard is one of those old OSes that has a loyal following. Anyway, I created a user for myself, deleted the old user, and decided to get comfortable. Just in case, though, I had an iso file ready from. So no install disk needed, thank goodness. Lucky for me, it was already running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. This time, though, I’m firing up a 2006 MacBook that I recently received from an acquaintance. Is this reminiscent of the recent post about using Windows XP in 2021? Well, it should be. ![]()
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