Will iCloud work with Snow Leopard?

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Well I am so sorry. Maybe not being rude should also be a guideline before you post Dude.

Right is more important.

Really??? I thought we were here to help each other!

nevrland wrote:

Really??? I thought we were here to help each other!

If you think that wrong is helpful then I do not understand you at all.

Correcting misinformation is one thing, being rude just makes these forums useless to those searching for help.

I don't believe I ever mentioned a version?? I said MS Office and assumed since the original post said Office on the Mac I simply offered viable options. Your response offered no help at all.

The correct answer to this topic is no, iCloud will not work with anything older than Lion. Before you upgrade make sure you upgrade all PPC software because Rosetta is no longer supported in Lion. It makes no sense to continue to support old technology beyond a reasonable point, that time has come after years of warning. And it makes no sense to add new features to old versions. It's time to move on or be happy with what you have.

No, if you want to run iCloud and have an older Mac, you can't run Lion on it. That means new hardware is required to run the new $29 OS.

And I'm sorry, there's no reason why going from Snow Leopard to Lion, one should loose both Rosetta and the ability to keep their older system.

"No, if you want to run iCloud and have an older Mac, you can't run Lion on it. That means new hardware is required to run the new $29 OS.

And I'm sorry, there's no reason why going from Snow Leopard to Lion, one should loose both Rosetta and the ability to keep their older system."

While you are absolutely correct there, can I point out that as iCloud currently stands, there is not much by way of Mac (or for that matter, Windows) support. If you are inclined to head in that direction, the cheapest way to supporting the use of iCloud sync services and Documents in the Cloud is by way of another iOS device as a backup. You can use your Snow Leopard system the way you (and I) always have, get an iPad or an iPod as a backup or alternative sync device next to your iPhone (because I presume that this is the most popular reason for sync services in the first place), get yourself Pastebot for the Mac and iOS so that you can easily move data between the two types of devices if you need to.

Otherwise, Safari and www.icloud.com is your best bet, short of using another service my some other vendor.

--tonza

Keriah, it sounds like you would be much better off with a PC than a Mac? Adobe and Macs just don't get along these days. Adobe is a real problem. They have excessively overpriced bloatware and they have a lot of annoyances to go with it. Lately they offer nothing a Mac user needs. They support Windows now.

You know, it's that other "A" company that doesn't care about Mac users anymore.

If we could just get rid of Java and Adobe, the Mac world would be a better place!

sbatson wrote:

No, if you want to run iCloud and have an older Mac, you can't run Lion on it. That means new hardware is required to run the new $29 OS.

And I'm sorry, there's no reason why going from Snow Leopard to Lion, one should loose both Rosetta and the ability to keep their older system.

iCloud Mail is compatible with Mac Mail on Snow Leopard and Leopard, however that is not so with Contacts and Calendars, for that you'll have to buy Soho Organizer, then you can have Contact and Calendars in addition to Mail, and you can do this on 10.5 or 10.6

After all the messages in this long dated thread, some just don't get it. iCloud is a whole service package which syncs everything. The benefits are the cool stuff you see on the commercials with the photo stream, music showing up on all your devices, etc. Contacts and Calendar syncing is nice too...Personally, I don't use it to sync my mail, so that I didn't care about, but others do. No one wants to have to use third party products to do what the Apple system should do.

Let me spell it out again, and I'm not the only one that has done that in this thread. iCloud is supported back to Windows XP with a simple upgrade to iTunes, yet they won't support the very last vesion of their own OS?

Give me a break! This is not rocket science, it would not have limited their OS, and if they didn't want it built into the OS, they could have provided some type of app or plug in. Plain and Simple, Apple want's people off of anything Pre-Lion, since that also forces owners of older Macs that don't support Lion to have to upgrade. They build in all these cool features make the Apple products a big happy sharing family (Mac, iPhone, iPod, iPad), they let several version of Windows play so they can keep the iOS device owner's happy, but they just won't give the older Mac owner's a break.

Again, Personally, I don't have this issue because came up with the money to buy a newer Mac for other reasons. It had Lion and I get all the benefits. I would not have bought a new Mac for iCloud though or to run Lion.

soltltym wrote:

Keriah, it sounds like you would be much better off with a PC than a Mac? ...

Ouch! No, not likely. I've been a Mac user since 1984 (yes, the year of The Hammer!). I'll figure out the workflow between Word and Dreamweaver (in spite of Adobe). But I'd really really hope that some graphic-aware vendor will eventually come up with a decent vector graphics program that can match what Fireworks did a decade ago.

iCloud on Windows requires Vista or Win7, at least according to the sys requirements, and iCloud on Mac and iOS is a completely different experience, fully integrated with the OS and any application that cares to take advantage of this feature. To get this level of integration requires it being part of the OS, not just with iTunes.

So how far back do we expect support for HW? OSX is finally 100% 64bit after lugging along with having to support old legacy technology, and thus the requirement for Intel Core 2 Duo or newer 64 bit processors. Any Mac computer made since 2007 will run it, that is 5 years, a reasonable expectation for technology becoming obsolete. Unfortunately, all 32 bit support is gone and thus Rosetta which allowed emulation of PPC code is also gone.

Long time Mac users have had a rough road with the mis-guided path of starting with 68k, then PPC, and now Intel. At the time of processor evolution and competition, those were the best choices, unfortunately those did not win the war. Integration and compatibility won and Apple did a remarkable job of supporting older technology during those major transitions.

Hopefully the future will be smoother, at least until the next technology breakthrough, which will happen...

"Hopefully the future will be smoother, at least until the next technology breakthrough, which will happen..."

ARM, anyone?

Although, conpared to the current Core i5, that's two steps back!

--tonza