FYI, crashes without fully opening on Mac 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.
Fair enough, but the comparison of 15 year old Windows 2000 to five year old Snow Leopard is misleading.
Throwing that term around on this forum says more about yourself than anyone else, beyond that, I think most reasonable individuals recognize that desktop operating system technology progresses at relatively similar paces, there is nothing special about Apple's software or hardware that should require it to become obsolete within five years of purchase.
Win XP
Released 14 years ago. If you can't understand why comparing the usability of operating system software written a decade apart is fallacious, then I have to say that you're a bit ignorant on the topic.
> That is like complaining that something doesn't run on Windows 2000.
Ha,I wouldn't go that far. Macs running Snow Leopard still account for around a whopping 25 percent of active Macs.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/mac-os-x/23622/why-mac-users-...
All my Macs are capable of running Mavericks, but one of my MacBook Pros that I use most often still runs Snow Leopard (most of the time) because its version of Exposé is superior to Mission Control and Quick Look (aside from URLS) has vastly superior compatibility with nearly all video codecs I throw at it with Perian running in the background. Apple killed that for newer OS versions and no one has made a workaround yet.
I've also found that Apple decided to degrade things like Safari in the Mavericks update as well. For example, Safari lost it's separate window download manager which is I use very often to monitor download speeds, drag and drop files, urls to, etc. that doesn't work at all or isn't practical with Apple's downgrade. And, Safari 5.1.10 and Snow Leopard is very fast. I see very little difference and even some advantages to 10.6.8 in speed here and there to this day compared to Mavs 10.9.3.
Apple also got downgraded the Activity Window in the versions of Safari that run on Mavericks as well which I use all the time to easily root out video downloads and snag them for offline usage that many of the video download extensions and apps miss.
But the overall main thing I can't stand is the horrible downgrade of Quick Look. I use Quick Look as much as I breathe and for Apple to eliminate its compatibility with so many codecs in one broad swoop makes the advantages of Mavericks not worth it for me. If someone can get Maverick's Quick Look fixed to work with Quick Look extensions and have it be on par with Snow Leopard, I'm more apt to move away from SL.
Theres other things I can do in Snow Leopard that others simply cannot do in Mavericks as well, but I covered some of the main points. And, yes, I take extra steps to secure my machine since there are security issues using older versions of apps and OS.