[Discuss] OSX Mavericks root exploit, and Safari

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

The Core Duo is not the same processor as the Core 2 Duo. Core 2 Duo
systems can be upgraded to Yosemite. Core Duo systems cannot be
upgraded to anything later than Snow Leopard.

The current period is actually quite unusual for Apple. Usually every
new release of Mac OS makes some systems drop out of OS support. But
the minimum system requirements have been constant (other than the
amount of required free disk space) have been constant from Lion
through Yosemite. That's unlikely to last much longer; my prediction
is that the next version of Mac OS X will drop support of Core 2
processors, and systems with the Core i3/5/7 series will be the oldest
supported Macs.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:39:56 -0400, =?UTF-8?B?U2hpcmxleSBNw6FycXVleiBEw7psY2V5?= wrote:
>> The only consolation is that Apple doesn't appear to have obsoleted
>> any hardware in any version of Mac OS X since Lion. So it should be
>> possible to upgrade any system running Lion, Mountain Lion, or
>> Mavericks to Yosemite, aside from the possibility of running out of
>> disk space. The upgrade may break some applications, however.
>>
>> Lion does not support systems with a Core Solo or Core Duo processor.
>> Those systems can't be upgraded past Snow Leopard.
>
> I believe that some Core 2 Duo Macs can be upgraded (mid-2007 and
> beyond, aka MacBookPro3,1 and higher).
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