Snow Leopard and iCloud

Another good one which I have now switched to is Box. They have been offering. A free 50gig account to match the launch of iCloud. As a core duo MacBook pro user this is now my best open. Next I could swap with my wife's old IBM pc which has Vista on it!

It certainly doesn't make sense to give iCloud abilities to Windows 7 users and not to Snow Leopard/Leopard users... I see no logic here.

I just set up Box this morning. And run into a weird problem works fine on FireFox 8.a

But I have to go through an additional hoop to get it to work with SeaMonkey 2.0.14.

I'll have to try SM 2.7.1 a and see what happens.

If I have a Macbook pro running Snow Leopard and Windows 7 on Paralells, would I be better off to sign up to icloud on Windows 7 and not upgrade to Lion? Could I change over to Snow Leopard with icloud later you think if Apple decides to upgrade SL to icloud?

Any opinions? TIA

It should work. As far as switching over to Snow Leopard should Apple change, I don't see why not. iCloud does have some features that are compatible with Snow Leopard as it stands, but it sounds like setting it up you will need Lion or Windows.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4759

Safari 5 support goes back to 10.5 at least.

At the moment that seems to be a good option as Apple prefers Windows to Snow Leopard for icloud. I am sure you will be able to use OSX SL if Apple decides to support it. However problems include iphoto and Aperture as these need a OSX machine running Lion to work with photo stream. As a photographer I dont know what to do at the moment. I will give Apple a week or two as I am waiting for a bug fix for Aperture 3.2 to work with my 17 inch Macbook Pro (core duo alas) and RAW files. Had to spend hours recovering my photos . .

Another useful reference on this issue:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4929

Nice find. Now that's something that belongs in the tip I was just writing. Thank you.

Another one in case you haven't seen it:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4918

Thanks Tom. Will add that to:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2551

No Snow Leopard doesn`t works.

I have been asking some of the same questions in another forum. It seems that the particular services that used to be so great for me in MobileMe will not be available in icloud, or will work less well - e.g. syncing email and addresses, backing up and syncing data not created in iwork (that I don't use), creating webpages from iphoto etc etc. I thought the point of icloud was to be able to access one's data instantly from anywhere, but this is not the case, according to advice I obtained from another techie guy on another discussion post. If so, what is exactly the purpose of icloud at all? Maybe that's why its free of charge, cause they realise its totally useless for anyone in the real world. I am very reluctant to upgrade to Lion because of the cost of upgrading my 3rd party software, and because basically SL works just fine for me right now, so why fix it if it aint broke? The advice I have had is to switch my email account to gmail (I have a gmail account anyway, and its so-so, prone to getting hacked a lot in my experience) and use dropbox for storage (but I don't know if data can be sync'd that way), and picasa for photo albums (much clunkier than mobileme albums). Does anyone have any better ideas please?

Hi there,

If you want to get your mail on your snow leopard server syncing with your iCloud on your iPhone then go to article HT4864 and it will expalin how to do it manually. So far as address book, calendar etc. - i'm still working on it!

I just chatted with a support person identified as Crystal, and she said, No Support for iCloud in Snow Leopard. If I don't want to upgrade, I should use Windows 7.

How's that for bad behavior on Apple's part? Pretty arrogant, IMHO.

It just as well I am limited to 3 MB DSL connection and icLoud would be useless to me. Thatproblem wit iCloud and X.7 to begin with. To be able to do anything your going to need a Minimum of 12-16MB Dowload and 8-10 MB Upload to use iCloud.

I have the utility Lion Cache cleaner. One feature it has is an estimator of the time to download Lion.

The estimated time is 1-3/4 days constant connection.

Apple and other companies are assuming everyone can afford a Cable, FOIS, T1, or T5 connection. when about 85% of the use is still using Dial-up. Many areas are not covered by Cable. Limited areas by DSL. And DSL is not that great. sometimes download spped is around 3 MB. nor often than not is less than 512k.