It’d be good to know what the future of Roon would look like and whether Roon would even support me going forward in my current situation. I have my annual plan ending sometime in a month. I only use desktops as Cores that can be plugged in without having to worry about battery issues. I also have newer Retina MacBook Pros running latest High Sierra and use them for Roon as endpoints, but never as Cores (at least not permanently). Roon being supported on 10.8 actually factored into the decision.
MAC MINI SERVER 10.8 UPDATE
In the past I’ve tried to update this iMac to a few of the newer OS in hope that they could work better.
![mac mini server 10.8 mac mini server 10.8](https://johndrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Apple-Mac-Mini-Server.jpg)
I can leave the iMac running 24/7 in the background and Roon works fine with other zones. 10.8 works perfectly for these tasks, including Roon. I use it mostly for Roon, web browsing, and word processing. My iMac is a late 2009 Core 2 Duo w/ an internal HDD and 12GB RAM.
![mac mini server 10.8 mac mini server 10.8](https://www.imagine41.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Apple-Mac-Mini-Core-2-Duo-Server-2.66GHz-008-768x576.jpg)
So I am wondering what reasons you guys have for avoiding to upgrade past 2012–maybe there is a good reason that I am not thinking of.Īnyways–still undecided, and looking forward to hearing what you guys have to say. It is used by less than one tenth of one percent of our members at this point.Īll of this is causing me to wonder why we still support 10.8. I could almost count the number of 10.8 users that we have in our whole member base on two hands (based on the usage stats captured by our servers). So we have been doing more to do it than the OS vendor for quite a while now. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to support this version due to Apple’s new security stuff in 10.14, since the facilities needed to even make the initial checks to determine the status of the security mechanisms that we now have no choice but to support for 10.14 didn’t exist in 10.8.Ĭan you explain why you are still running an OS from 2012? It doesn’t receive security updates anymore, and doesn’t even run the latest iTunes or other Apple apps (they seem to require 10.10 now).