chillypop

Q: Which macbooks still support Leopard?

I have a friend who needs to run AppleWorks. He is running under Leopard OS X 10.5.8 .So far as I know AppleWorks will not work on the newer MacOS. His iMac is dying and he wants to buy a used laptop. So, what MacBook models will still run Leopard OS X 10.5.8?

MacPro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 1, 2013 6:50 PM

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  • by Niel,Solvedanswer

    Niel Niel Sep 1, 2013 6:53 PM in response to chillypop
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    Sep 1, 2013 6:53 PM in response to chillypop

    AppleWorks 6 will run on Mac OS X 10.6.8, which will run on all Intel Macs released prior to mid-2011.

     

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  • by chillypop,

    chillypop chillypop Sep 15, 2013 7:29 PM in response to Niel
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    Sep 15, 2013 7:29 PM in response to Niel

    Thanks!. I see from the Other World Computing web site that MacBook Pro model 7,1 was the most up to date model for 2010. To be safe I could limit my search to this list.

    The full list for 2008-2010 is:

    • MacBook5,1
    • MacBookPro5,1
    • MacBookPro5,2
    • MacBookPro5,3
    • MacBookPro5,4
    • MacBookPro5,5
    • MacBookPro6,1
    • MacBookPro6,2
    • MacBookPro7,1

     

    But there are three models for 2011. Would you happen to know if any of these will still run AppleWorks 6?

    • MacBookPro8,1
    • MacBookPro8,2
    • MacBookPro8,3
  • by ds store,

    ds store ds store Sep 15, 2013 8:41 PM in response to chillypop
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    Sep 15, 2013 8:41 PM in response to chillypop

    chillypop wrote:


    But there are three models for 2011. Would you happen to know if any of these will still run AppleWorks 6?

    • MacBookPro8,1 (13")
    • MacBookPro8,2 (15")
    • MacBookPro8,3 (17")

     

    There is a Early 2011 and a Late 2011 version of those models.

     

    The Late 2011 versions came with OS X Lion (10.7) and don't run PPC based software (Appleworks)

     

    The Early 2011 versions will, provided they came with OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) installed or have the machine specific versions of those disks (the 10.6.3 retail disks sold online won't work)

     

    Many Early 2011's came with OS X 10.6, but when 10.7 was released they came with that and the firmware will not allow you to boot from the 10.6 disks (however it can be bypassed with another Mac in Firewire Target Disk Mode)

     

    So if you want a Early 2011 Mac, make sure it has the 10.6 disks as Mac's with 10.7+ now have Internet/Recovery HD (partitions) as many lack optical drives.

     

     

    OS X 10.6 is unfortunately near it's end of life stage, still about 25% of OS X users still use it so Apple is providing security updates for OS X and some Apple programs, but not for Safari or Java 6, which Oracle is discontinuing.

     

    So if you use 10.6 online, disable Java in the browsers and Java Preferences and don't use Safari (just long enough to install Firefox)

  • by ds store,

    ds store ds store Sep 15, 2013 8:42 PM in response to chillypop
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    Sep 15, 2013 8:42 PM in response to chillypop

    A method to run Appleworks on a more recent OS X version/machine is  to use a virtual machine program and a copy of OS X server, which  Appleworks can be installed into that.

     

    Since it  will be running two operating systems and a few programs all at the same  time, it has to a be a rather powerful Mac with quad core and 8GB-16GB  of RAM, dedicated graphics card preferred, which would mean the MacBook  Pro 15" or a iMac or better.

     

    There is instructions how to do this on YouTube and MacRumors forums by MichealLAX.

     

    Obviously this is a stop gap measure until one can transistion out of Appleworks as it's discontinued.

     

    Snow Leopard on 10.7+ Mac