Yes, perhaps I will. A lot of what I'm trying to do does fall well within that realm.

By the way, if you look up "snow leopard on ivy bridge" on Google, you will find that people recommend using a kernel from Mountain Lion to get it booting. I'm sure it's all theoretical, but it could work?

Perhaps Mavericks and Snow Leopard are too different (Mavericks did introduce a bunch of new stuff); I'll try a kernel from either Mountain Lion (which is suggested) or the 2012 MacBook Pro update for Lion (might be more similar to SL).

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