will mountain lion run powerpc (rosetta)

Csound1 wrote:

MlchaelLAX wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

MlchaelLAX wrote:

Be careful of the source of advice you are acquiring. Some people present here on this Forum are only interested in their approach to a problem and hence carry this prejudice into their advice.

And you don't, with your one and only (repetitious) post?

No: I do not go out of my way to needlessly disparage other solutions to the OP's problem.

Must I really have to explain to you that it is NOT repetitious to the OP?

It will as soon as he returns, but you are as free to post your approach as anyone else, so carry on.

What do you mean by: "It will as soon as he returns...?"

oxcartwrote:

<<The government are wise to this, at least some departments. The National Institutes of Health has extremely strict policies restricting the purchase of personal computers.>>

That can only go so far. The march of technology is such that sooner or later you HAVE to upgrade or find yourself unable to do certain things, like installing a piece of software that won't run on your version of the OS or which needs a faster processor or more memory or disk space than your venerable antique has available.

That in turn can lead to some drastic solutions. For example, the university I used to work for (which has thousands of staff and tens of thousands of students) has in recent years given up buying computers altogether except in the case of servers (and those academics using their own grant money). Instead it leases the hardware for 3 years. Macs as well as Windows boxes.

Prior to that, postgrad students and junior staff in the faculty I worked for were using hand-me-downs that could at times be the better part of a decade old due to the ongoing cost of periodically upgrading the hardware. The university, with its large pool of potential buyers, was able to cut deals with local suppliers, but the cost was apparently crippling enough to their budgets that it made the switch.

When apple was struggling without Steve Jobs, representatvies from Apple came to the Berkley Macintosh Users meeting to ask us what we wanted. We told them keep our software compatible. That was before Steve Jobs returned to Apple. They have done an admirable attempt at that over the years (although I still cant use dome IE websites with Safari because of incompatability).

They dumped the Newton and Palm was born

Dumped business support for the Mac and really havent revived it.

Made a fortune psuhing downloading music and videos and cool electronic "watches" (ipad etc...).

Now Apple is offering a business soltuion that utilizes Ipads - not a desktop OS, but a phone OS that is neither the Newton nor the Macintosh Desktop. One screen at a time, "dumb terminals" as we used to call them in the days of TTY's.

Apple makes too much money from media know. It doesnt need power users or business users that keep a machine and its programs for 20 years.