Overall, 17-20% of visitors to Low End Mac would benefit from a modern browser for OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8. Another 6.2% is using 10.7, and just 3.0% are still on 10.8, which is on the way out. Site Statisticsīased on traffic to, which probably skews a bit more toward older Macs than the norm, 11.4% of those visiting the site using Intel-based Macs in February 2016 were using OS X 10.6. We really don’t need to worry about Mountain Lion users, since any Mac that supports Mountain Lion can also run each later version through OS X 10.11 El Capitan.Īpple has sold in the ballpark of 140 million Intel-based Macs, and some of these older Macs are no longer in use, so it’s definitely a small percentage – but it’s probably a bigger audience than G3, G4, and G5 Mac users. Maybe another 6-7 million, for a total of somewhere around 10 million. Then there are the Macs that can run OS X 10.7 Lion but nothing since, Core 2 Duo models with Intel integrated graphics. That would be every Core Duo Mac, so all the Intel Macs from January 2006 until September or so. How Many Macs Can’t Run OS X 10.9 and Later?Īpple hasn’t released Mac sales figures broken down by model line in a long time, so we have to make a best guess as to how many Macs are out there that can’t run anything later than Snow Leopard.
It would provide one last up-to-date browser for Macs otherwise left behind by recent browser developments. TenSixFox would do for users of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, and 10.8 Mountain Lion what TenFourFox does for PowerPC Macs running OS X 10.4 and 10.5. With Chrome and Firefox due to drop OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 support, perhaps it’s time for a similar project – TenSixFox. Those using G3, G4, or G5 Macs with OS X 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard are no doubt aware of TenFourFox, a port of the latest Extended Release version of Firefox to these old systems.
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