In a different vein from Jon, a couple of months ago I purchased a factory-refurbed April 2010 MacBook Pro i7 that runs Snow Leopard...as much OS as I need, but still has a bunch of OSs left to run should my world change. (Small Dog still has some lesser MBPs available.)
And as for Apple's discontinuing support for Snowy, I wonder... A recent report from a Website that tracks the OS versions of visitors showed Mounty having passed Lion at ~ 32% v 27% and Lion having fallen behind Snowy at ~ 29% v 27%, so it looks like Snowy isn't going anywhere any time soon.
On the other hand, though, it should be pretty easy for you to go through your apps and see which will need upgrading if you go past Snowy and how much it will cost.
Edit: I forgot to mention that my refurb came with AppleCare and the option to extend it, so I didn't buy a pig-in-a-poke.
Last edited by artie505; 08/01/13 07:42 PM.
