Hello,
I was wondering whether you are planning to keep supporting Snow Leopard or if SL-support on its last verse. Trying to figure if it is worth attempting to get a macbook that is getting a bit long in the tooth to run Mavericks.
Regards,
Martin
That's a very good question. I've debated dropping Snow Leopard support in future versions several times. As you likely know, it can be difficult to develop new features and support new OS releases while maintaining backward compatibility with old OS releases. In development of the next release of Pear Note for Mac, I actually did drop Snow Leopard support (and Lion as well) a few weeks ago. But then I found a way to work around the problem I was having without losing 10.6 compatibility, so I added support for 10.6/10.7 back in.
So, I have not dropped support for Snow Leopard yet, and there's a good chance I won't drop it in the next update. But it won't be too much longer before I do drop support for it. There just aren't very many users using it any more, and the maintenance burden of it continues to grow.
One note to anyone else reading this - this doesn't mean the current version will stop working on Snow Leopard. It just means new versions won't work on it. You can keep using the current version on Snow Leopard for as long as you like.
Mavericks it is then! I actually went ahead and updated. I have a 2008 macbook with a Intel Core 2 Duo, but with maxed out RAM, a new SSD and disabling "compressed memory" (http://www.apple.com/osx/advanced-technologies/) in Mavericks*, it seems to run fine. Perhaps interesting for someone in a similar situation...
Incidently, updating to Mavericks solved the issue I had with pages of PDFs added with "add slides" not being updated when going to the next or previous page in Pear Note 3.1.3 on OSX 10.6.8. So there were immediate benefits of updating.
Regards,
Martin
* http://superuser.com/questions/668114/disable-compressed-memory-in-mac-os-10-9-mavericks
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