chuckthetekkie wrote:
...Quicken, for example, the older PowerPC versions have features that were removed from the Lion version.
Be aware that the Quicken 2007 for Lion that Intuit is releasing only has an upgrade path for Quicken versions 2005, 2006 and 2007. There is NO upgrade path (at this time) for older versions of Quicken.
This is problematic for me, as I have continued to use Quicken Deluxe 2002 because Intuit lobotomized later versions, specifically the ability to track stock market transactions.
Since I purchased a mid-2011 Mac Mini to replace my desktop iMac G5 when it died, it requires Lion (although there is good work from others on this forum about how to get Snow Leopard to work on those machines; a solution I am not interested in; as I am just about to upgrade to iCloud before the deadline).
Hence my posting about my success in getting Snow Leopard to work withing Parallels 7 in Lion, which is now how I access Quicken Deluxe 2002 on a 24/7/365 basis (among other Rosetta programs used less frequently):
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16247806#16247806
If the dual boot solution works for your hardware then you are back to the way Boot Camp worked for Windows on Macs before Virtualization: rebooting all the time. Good luck with that!
Given my hardware, and my limited patience, that is not a solution for me.