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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

OS X Snow Leopard shows signs of becoming Apple's XP

It's all about the hardware! Unfortunately for those that want to upgrade may not be able to due to the memory limitations of their current computer. And, due to the pricing of DDR2 memory only growing higher as more DDR3 memory becomes the norm, this is going to cause many to reconsider upgrading altogether and simply wait it out until their machine simply has other hardware issues that will result in replacing the unit completely.
 
 
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OS X Snow Leopard shows signs of becoming Apple's XP

One in four Macs now run OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's newest operating system, data released last week showed.

But there are signs that OS X Snow Leopard, an edition shipped in August 2009, may be the Mac's equivalent of Microsoft's Windows XP, an OS that stubbornly refuses to go away.

Mountain Lion, also known as OS X 10.8, accounted for 25.8% of all Mac operating systems during October, according to statistics from metrics company Net Applications. That represented a three-and-a-half-point increase over September.

Apple issued Mountain Lion on July 25.

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