Comment Re:Snow Leapard: Rosetta (Score 1) 241
Not to sound like a jerk -- but when you have to start worrying that accepting a software upgrade on the iOS side will mean it breaks functionality with the piece on the OS X side, that's your sign that it's time to upgrade OS X.
I know all about the people clinging onto Snow Leopard because of either a claimed need for Rosetta, or being one of those systems that was kind of "caught in the middle" when things were transitioning -- with a "Core" series CPU, yet one that's only 32-bits.
But I don't think you can really expect Apple to keep supporting your environment any longer, if you're still holding on to OS X 10.6. Like it or not, Apple has pretty clearly been following a trend of giving support only for the current revision of OS X and the previous version. So far with Mavericks, they've actually been extending that support back 2 versions (both Lion and Mountain Lion), but regardless? When you're a full 3 versions behind the current one, you really shouldn't expect Apple to give you answers other than "upgrade" when you complain about a lack of security patches or functionality with newer software releases.
Personally, I don't even believe Rosetta is needed by many of the people who think it is. There's a free product called SheepShaver out there which emulates classic MacOS even under Mavericks, and I know of at least one project out there that uses it as the "engine" to run the old WordPerfect for Mac software on today's machines. So that's one way to make even pre PPC era software run on a new machine.
I'm sure there are other niche cases, such as older software synthesizers that never got upgraded past the old PPC versions, but why would you even need such a machine to stay online all the time, and therefore need the latest security fixes? Just leave it on Snow Leopard or whatever and use it as a stand-alone music creation box.