When will we get rosetta on Lion

chuckthetekkie wrote:

I really hope some one figures out how to get Rosetta working in Lion because until then, I have no reason to buy Leopard.

Not gonna happen. Are you buying a new Mac? If not, then no one if forcing you to buy Lion.

And if you must have PowerPC Apps, then just install a seperate partition with Snow Leopard.

Not on a 500GB hard drive with only 80GB of space left (and that's after deleting stuff I didn't need). Plus I use bootcamp to run the ocassional Windows only app and you can't have a 3rd partition when using BootCamp.

Philly_Phan wrote:

Kappy wrote:

"If a man makes a statement... And there is no woman present to hear him... Is he still wrong?"

If a women makes a statement does any man really care?

Naah!

I'm sorry, but I am offended by the sexist (and ad hominem) remarks made by both of you.

Then you'll have to stay with Snow Leopard

I would only ask then, what is the cutoff? Should Apple be forced to support apps that where written for OS 9, how about OS 8, or OS 7?

Where I work right now, we are going though this same sort of transition. People purchased whole platforms and then never invested in keeping them up to date. So now that we are moving to Windows 7, these applications can no longer be supported.

To take this course of logic to its extreme, we would never progress beyond v1.0 of an OS, because no company would be able to leave any application written in the past behind.

We complain about software bloat, but the root cause is legacy code and legacy support that no one wants to give up.

Take MS Office as an example. How much extra code do you suppose is in MS Word alone, so that it can support every version of word document created in the past, all the way from v1.0 to now what? version 13? 14?

To be certain, there have been many apps and games I loved from the past that I can not find replacements for now. But, we move on...

Now, if what you have works for you, and you do not have to work with others, then by all means, stay where you are.

I am no rich man, and I would not tell anyone else to do what I do. For me, upgrading is important for security reasons. I keep my software up to date and patched so that whatever I am exchanging with others has as little chance of being a security risk as possible and has the highest chance of being compatible with what they are also using.

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Or one could buy an external hard drive and run SL from that when required.

Shouldn't that be ad wominem? Your remark is ad hominem. 😝

You know that if you object to a company's products or practices you have the option to vote with your feet - buy something else.

Apple has millions of customers. No one company can make everyone happy, so it makes choices based on what appeals to the largest number of customers. You just happen to be a customer who doesn't find Apple's decisions to align with your demands.

Apple doesn't monitor these forums to determine customer opinions for its products. The forums consist mostly of people with a problem. Complaining here is just a waste of bandwidth.

Let's move on, please.

Kappy wrote:

Shouldn't that be ad wominem? Your remark is ad hominem. 😝

Touche. Nice deflection attempt. 😀

I sort of thought you might like that one. 🙂

I understand Apple need to progress and also try to get older code off of there OS. I presently not need the features offer by Lion and will stay on Snow Leopard this really simple and I don't feel bad about it.

BUT I use a lot of scientific app that was developed for a really small group of people often these app are only available for window platform, but because of the stability and security of Mac OS and the fact that this OS is build on top of Unix code some developer also made the effort to build a Mac version of there software, most of these will never be update ( To much time and money ). One of my good friend with an international team developed a mathematical app specialize for education, this development take years and was supported by the NSF, they estimate that it'll cost around $10K to make this app intel native, it's possible that the NSF will support this work in the future, but for now, especially with the economical and political situation in USA, the NSF refuse the grant to do it.

My point is, I understand the Apple choice, but for the scientific community this is a big problem and could prevent the development of scientific app in the future...

It is good that Rosetta isn't there any more! I was forced to let go of AppleWorks because of the lack of Rosetta in Lion, and learned that after doing the transition in SL as well and disabling Rosetta there, that Rosetta slowed down the system significantly.

Luc Benard wrote:

My point is, I understand the Apple choice, but for the scientific community this is a big problem and could prevent the development of scientific app in the future...

I find it very hard to believe that the "scientific community" would develop new applications for obsolete hardware.