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Jan 29, 2013 3:20 PM in response to William B Rby Kappy,You listen to bad advice. Mountain Lion works just fine.
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Jan 29, 2013 4:44 PM in response to William B Rby Barney-15E,Sorry to hear you got fooled by the few having problems, often caused by third-party software that needs an update.
Been running Mountain Lion since it was out on five different Macs, now. No problems.
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Jan 29, 2013 4:50 PM in response to William B Rby McPAED,Hello,
I agree with that have been said. Mountain Lion runs fine since release date on my three Macs !
Regards.
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Jan 30, 2013 2:24 AM in response to William B Rby Leslie Bell,IF you are going to take the horrible advice you've received here, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A COMPLETE BACKUP, and apart from Time Machine. And try to install Mountain Lion on another drive, leaving your main drive untouched. And experiment with it for WEEKS, because chances are, you WILL have problems and discover all sorts of rosetta programs you had no idea you had and used will never work again unless you downgrade. MANY mac users are stuck using both, and booting back and forth as they need to to run many (for them, essential) programs.
DESPITE the raves here, more Mac COMPUTER users are still on Snow Leopard (TWO MAJOR OS's behind) than at any other time in Apple's history, and it's likely to stay that way. I run a recording and video studio, and we are on Snow Leopard FOREVER. Ditto all the ones I know of who haven't changed to another platform in disgust, and there are hundreds of those I know of personally.
Just dealing with the disaster of "save as" will lose you TONS of work and thousands of hours until you completely change the way you've worked on computers from day one. Guaranteed.
And in advance.... I am DEAF to criticism when it comes to this forum.
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Jan 31, 2013 1:24 PM in response to William B Rby MlchaelLAX,I am a bit surprised that it took Leslie to raise the Rosetta issue.
The fact of the matter is that MOST Snow Leopard users have no idea that they are running PowerPC applications in Rosetta emulation, because of the minor miracle Apple was able to perform by including Rosetta in Tiger, Leopard and optionally, in Snow Leopard! The programs just work!
So be aware if you have older software that has PPC code in it you will have problems.
There is a way to check NOW for which applications are PPC on your hard disk:
and there are workarounds that exist to continue to use these programs (but I will leave that to a later post, if you come back and identify some PPC programs which are important for you to continue to be able to use).
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Jan 31, 2013 1:26 PM in response to MlchaelLAXby Kappy,Probably because the OP never mentioned a thing that would have related to Rosetta. Who would listen to Leslie in the first place? He is nothing but hyperbolic BS because he wishes to think that somehow Snow Leopard is the perfect OS - none other, ever. He even cites meaningless statistics to support his case.
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Jan 31, 2013 1:41 PM in response to Kappyby MlchaelLAX,I don't know who Leslie is and I am somewhat surprised, that you, of all people, would criticise me for listening to him!
The fact of the matter is that any Snow Leopard user who asks about upgrading to Mountain Lion, will needlessly fall into the trap of the lack of Rosetta, and you know this more than most anybody on this forum.
The OP, like most users of Snow Leopard (Leopard or Tiger) have no idea what Rosetta is, let alone to ask about it!
Remember Apple's marketing on Rosetta? It speaks volumes on this issue:
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Jan 31, 2013 1:38 PM in response to MlchaelLAXby Leslie Bell,Hey Michael, thanks. Are the workarounds any third-party solutions yet that let PPC programs work on Lion and Mountain Lion? I wasn't aware of any beyond the hassle of dual booting, but it is possible as I'm running two third-party solutions like Spotless and EasyFind on Snow Leopard because Searchlight's constant indexing of drives was messing with the i/o I need for video editing (not to mention prematurely aging my drives.) Once again proving that someone doesn't know what they are talking about my "belief" that "Snow Leopard is the perfect OS" because my Snow Leopard via third-party solutions has actually retained some superior Tiger functionality.
And my, aren't the ancient ones testy when they overlook the obvious and ignore the handwriting on the wall because SOME pros don't need their Mac OS dumbed down with kiddy iOS "features" and others left Apple long ago. I should be commended for being one of the last holdouts.
Thanks!
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Jan 31, 2013 1:40 PM in response to Leslie Bellby MlchaelLAX,Don't know if this will help you out with OS issues, but for concurrent use of PowerPC applications:
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Jan 31, 2013 1:41 PM in response to MlchaelLAXby Kappy,Whoa! I've not said anything about you. The OP doesn't need to know about Rosetta. But he might know that his PPC applications would not run when using Lion or Mountain Lion. Or he was tipped off to downgrade for that reason.
My complaint with Leslie is the language of the post itself. Rosetta wasn't his message. His message was quite different. I would be surprised if you bought into the rest of his rant.
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Jan 31, 2013 1:42 PM in response to MlchaelLAXby Leslie Bell,Hey, we're simul-posting! Rosetta's no big deal, just some tiny utilities that have to do with SCANNING and PRINTING and tons of interfaces with non-Apple hardware like voice recorders and a whole lot of audio gear. You know, things people don't do anymore because you can't do them on an iPad. Nothing major.
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Jan 31, 2013 1:45 PM in response to MlchaelLAXby Leslie Bell,I have parallels, thanks. That is a solution for people without external drives, but I would still consider it a dual-boot solution, even given parallels intergration with the main OS. What would be great would be a third party rosetta install, but I'm sure Apple has made that almost impossible or it would have surely appeared by now (and sold very well like Spotless and Easyfind.
Thanks!
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Jan 31, 2013 1:51 PM in response to Kappyby Leslie Bell,"The OP doesn't need to know about Rosetta".
Apple I am sure would like you to believe. But there are, let's see, about 2 THOUSAND posts on here by confused and angry people during the switch to Lion that suddenly found out programs they relied on had suddenly gone dead.
"The OP doesn't need to know about Rosetta."
Until they find out. The hard way. Like everyone else.
Or until someone gives them the HEADS UP before they plunge.
It's a dirty job, not much acclaim, but someone's got to do it.
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Jan 31, 2013 1:52 PM in response to Leslie Bellby Kappy,What was "obvious" in the OP's question that was overlooked by all but you? I'm not testy because I'm an old user of Macs. I'm testy because of this crap:
DESPITE the raves here, more Mac COMPUTER users are still on Snow Leopard (TWO MAJOR OS's behind) than at any other time in Apple's history, and it's likely to stay that way. I run a recording and video studio, and we are on Snow Leopard FOREVER. Ditto all the ones I know of who haven't changed to another platform in disgust, and there are hundreds of those I know of personally.
And this:
Just dealing with the disaster of "save as" will lose you TONS of work and thousands of hours until you completely change the way you've worked on computers from day one. Guaranteed.
And the general tone of that post of yours. You don't like Lion or Mountain Lion, fine. The hyperbole is not just unnecessary it's unhelpful.
