Q: Should I upgrade now?

You have a G5 so there's no place for you to go from Snow Leopard.

First of all if what you just wrote is correct you really should correct your profile because your iMac is not a G5 also you are not running 10.3.9 either.

You are running the Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 which is the latest and greatest you can run and still use AppleWorks. So since you are dependent on AppleWorks, you should NOT upgrade to Lion. If you upgrade to Lion your will lose the ability to run AppleWorks.

Please be aware that AppleWorks has been declared obsolete. So you might want to consider migrating to another application instead.

Allan

I think that the profile is wrong. The original messages states a Intel Core 2 Duo is what is being used instead.

Allan

If you actually have an iMac with an Intel Core 2 Duo and your operating system is Mac OS 10.6.8, you are eligible to upgrade to Lion by downloading it on the Mac App Store. Whether you WANT to install it or not is up to you.

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Basically, it's either Lion or AppleWorks. You can't have both.

If you are contemplating abandoning AppleWorks this article may help:

http://rfwilmut.net/aw

He is dependent on AppleWorks hence the reason I told him NOT to upgrade to Lion.

Allan

The question I think is about if you can use AW if you upgrade. No, you can't! Lion doesn't use Rosetta which AW need on Intel machines.

Sometimes they are wrong.