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Originally Posted by Graham
No updates to iTunes, Adobe Air, Java, security software, anti-virus, etc., or any other application that you're using?
No patches to the operating system or updates to later versions?
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Well, almost nobody (including Apple) develops for PowerPC architecture anymore. So there aren't a lot of those updates you mention. And while you'd have to be suicidal to use a Windows OS that hasn't been patched since 2009, MacOS's security is such that you don't really need to update much more than your browser to be safe.
As for apps, it works perfectly with Google Docs applications, which get updated just as often as they would on any other system.
Updates on my newer Mac are relatively easy. Clicking "Update" when the box appears that informs me that there's a security update to my system isn't terribly difficult. But nothing forces me to upgrade OS versions, and the software works just fine without updates as well, so for a non-technical user, I suspect these would be non-issues.
But it is funny that you list anti-virus, iTunes and Java, as those things aren't supported with ChromeOS. So you avoid the issue of updating them by not including them at all.