Lion will not run many applications

Oh, please. This has been well-publicized for months. Basically, this was covered in almost all reports on the new OS since it was announced. It is clearly spelled out in the documentation that accompanies the Lion installer. What is more, Rosetta was not part of the default installation of Snow Leopard. It was an optional installation. Seen in this light, you have had years of warnings that PPC support in MacOS X was going bye-bye. The bottom line is that there is absolutely positively zero (0) excuse for not knowing that Rosetta is not supported under Lion.

Aol!?

Or maybe you should use software less than half a decade old.

AOL. Seriously.


Or you could have read some of the articles that stated this fact that have been written over the last six months.

To be fair, most people don't scour the internet reading the latest rumors and crap regarding their computer. Most people will see there's a new version of something and since it's the newest, latest, and greatest will upgrade based on that alone. Most people, for better or worse, have no desire to put much effort into researching what will and will not work after an upgrade like this. I didn't realize this, and I scan this site a couple times a week (no, I don't scour each article). If I hadn't read a few threads on here before upgrading I would have been royally screwed, since my primary office management program is PPC apparently.
The guy started a legitimate thread, IMO. Yes, the information is out there, but does that mean that everyone SHOULD know that information prior to upgrading? Yes, they probably should, but you all are part of the small percentage that actually does...

No buts. The information was not just out there. It has been on this forum for the past six months. It has been widely discussed. "I don't read" is simply not an excuse. No one was required to upgrade to Lion. If you make a deliberately uninformed decision to do so, then you must accept to consequences of your decision. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Like I said, most people don't read message boards about the new operating system. They don't read every damn article talking about. Most people have lives. They see there's something new, maybe read up on if their computer supports it and all the cool new things it has, and then buy it. Get over yourself and stop being an asshole to the guy.

reinstall snow leopard.

I concur. It's not that big a deal. For the OP and for those upset about the OP.

Was there a valid reason not to include Rosetta? I wonder if some enterprising Mac hacker will eventually port it over.

Presumably, Apple could include emulators that allowed users to continue to use legacy software that dates all the way back to the original 128 K Mac. Any decision to drop support for any version of the OS will leave some elements of the installed base high and dry. In my case, two mission critical applications prevent me from going totally to Lion. For one, the developer dropped support for the Mac with MacOS 9. For the other, the developer dropped support for the Mac prior to the Intel transition. In both cases, the developer continues to develop for Windows. I can't just abandon the applications because it would mean abandoning files that date back to 1989. But, I digress...

Apple began the Intel transition in 2006--two computer lifetimes ago. Does this constitute a mandate to drop Rosetta? Of course not. However, Apple under Steve Jobs II is about the future, not the past. New technologies are adopted, old ones abandoned, and Apple makes money faster than the Government can print it.

I may love my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro. I may wish that Apple continues to support the technologies that enable software whose developers long ago abandoned them. However, the bottomline is the bottomline. The bottomline is that Apple is following a strategy that is now projected to carry it past ExxonMobil as the World's highest capitalized company.

Think of the alternative. IBM lost its lead in Intel-based PCs partially because it insisted on continued support for the Intel 286 processor. If you run Windows, then you may continue to run commandline MS-DOS applications. Microsoft now fades in Apple's rearview mirror. However, memories of slavery to the the past are still fresh in the memory of Apple. The thing that brought Apple to its knees in the 1990s was its insistence that System 8 [Copland] be 100% compatible with System 7 while also supporting all of the marvelous new technology that Apple intended to incorporate into the new OS.

Engineering is about design choices. None comes without a price. What we have seen is that we may abandon the past. However, the risk is that we may alienate the installed base. The alternative is to do everything that we can to support the installed base. The risk is that we are passed by competitors who are not encumbered by legacy support.

Is there a reason that Rosetta was removed from Lion? Yes, the bottomline.

How does this explain the collection of old software he wants to run?

The consequences of trying to maintain support for obsolescent and obsolete software is bloat, leading to poor performance and ultimately . If you think 10.7 not supporting Rosetta caused pain, wait until 10.8 drops run-time support for Carbon apps.

It helped slim down the installer too - just 3.5GB now. Not quite as lean as Ubuntu at <700MB but still downloadable.

Now that it is a download package, hopefully they will find other parts they can trim or leave for a later download so the initial download goes more quickly.

With PPC removal, I expect some of the bigger apps to have compatibility problems. Possibly not to do with PPC but Maya is not ready for 10.7 for example:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Instal...a/td-p/3098198

I like it when legacy code is removed in general. It's been 6 years now since the Intel switch and they aren't going back. When we all have 64-bit, resolution-independent, inexpensive Cocoa apps we'll probably be better off.

For the odd legacy app, there will be a Windows app that can run in a VM, including Freehand.

And again when they switch to a 128 bit OS.. And then a 256 bit OS......512 bit OS.......

Clearly you don't get it. If you're not a total geek you deserve to get screwed. If you ever forget this principle our many resident geeks will be happy to remind you.

Talk to Intuit about how long they've had to produce an Intel binary for Quicken. They are not ashamed. The workaround of running Quicken for Windows would be kludgy and expensive, even if it worked -- which it doesn't. Quicken for Windows does not import Quicken for Mac files. So screwed city is apparently the place to be. So say all the cool kids.

We run our invoicing system on an older version of FileMaker. Can we buy an Intel version of Filemaker? Sure, at a cost of $300 per workstation. Nice. That $29 Lion upgrade sure was a bargain.

If your getting your Mac news from this site only you are screwed. This is a rumor site and as such most of what's said has to be taken with a large grain of salt and a very good BS detector. You should also be reading true Mac news sites like MacWorld (http://www.macworld.com/), The Mac Observer (http://www.macobserver.com/) and TidBITS (http://www.tidbits.com/). None of these are rumor sites and were all screaming about the lost of Rosetta and other issues. One or more of these sites (and there are others I haven't mentioned) should be on your must read list.

Quicken Essentials runs just fine in Lion.

Quicken Essential is trash. It doesn't even print checks or do reports, something every version of Quicken has done for 15 years.

I am quite surprised to hear that, because anyone who reads forums even occasionally should know. It's also not reasonable to suspect that software over 5 years old is just going to work with a new OS. The lack of PPC support was announced from the beginning. Why is it Apple's job to give you an ALL CAPS warning about software you should have upgraded anyway?

MS Office: I bought 2011 before upgrading. I was running V.x and knew I needed to upgrade anyway (couldn't interact with newer Open Document format (.docx, xlsx). This is an essential upgrade. You can't expect nearly 8 year old software (or older in my case) to just work forever as you upgrade your system (something you chose to do, not Apple).

AOL Mail? Are you kidding? Let me guess...you can't get Internet Explorer to work either?

And what is this nonsense about "having to purchase them again?" You're not purchasing them again. You're buying vastly better versions. If you can afford a new Mac, you can afford the $120 for a singe user home and student Office, or $200 for the more robust version. Office 2011 is SO much more capable than 2008, 2004 or V.x it's not even funny.



Then many people are completely ignorant.

If you're not a geek you deserve what you get. Case closed.

It does both those things.

Apparently they have retuned the check print functionality in the most recent version but the reporting is still very primative. It is still a major step backwards from versions of Quicken available ten years ago. This has to be the worst received Mac software of all time.

http://download.cnet.com/Quicken-Ess...08622.html?v=1

An insult to Mac users really, and not something we should be forced to buy because there's nothing else.