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Hello all, I have a four and a half year old MacBook Pro running on OS X 10.6.8 - the OS it was shipped with. Can my passport for mac work on windows. I recently noticed I wasn't getting any updates and realised Apple stops sending them out after 3 years. I use my computer for research work that means accessing university websites, internet, and lots of word processing in Office 2011. I do most work on Chrome and Firefox with Safari reserved for occasional use.

However, when I try to login into my university server I get an alert message about the OS being outdated. I also regularly use my computer for online banking and now I am unsure if it is a good idea to do this and other such activities on an 'outdated' OS? I am starting to wonder if there are any security implications that I need to be aware of? Do you think I need to upgrade to a newer version asap? If yes, which one? Ok, so I will be the odd man out here and tell you to update that MBP. There were three versions of the MBP that were issued in 2010 and all are good candidates for running Yosemite.

Even the mid 2009 MBP is capable. Bear in mind that you are 4 major iterations of OS X behind and a lot has happened since the heady days of 10.6.8. All of the 2010 models take 8GB of RAM which is what you should aim for before upgrading to 10.10. This will alleviate any slowdown you may experience. Personally I did not see any drop in speed when I updated. You presumably have your original disks of 10.6.x and I'm sure a person of your academic standing is undoubtedly running Time Machine as a small portion of your backup regimen. That said, with your nice new backup you can quite easily go back to 10.6 should you decide you can't get along with 10.10 Your University server may be the first one to tell you that you're running an out of date OS, but it will not be the last.