Re: A modern Macbook Pro, which of my apps will not work.

dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I buy a Macbook Pro, (Intel) will I be able to run any or all of my
OS X apps that I now run on Tiger on my Powermac, for a period of time
till I make a judgement about upgrading apps (cost and all that...). I
have not been following closely all the business on this and find I am
confused as to what problems are due to apps being on Intel and what on
higher than Tiger.

The majority of problems are due to compatiblity issues with later
versions of Mac OS X.

Simply switching to Intel on the same major version of Mac OS X doesn't
usually cause problems (except for Classic applications, which are not
supported on Intel). Intel Macs can run PowerPC Mac OS X applications
via Rosetta, which is almost entirely seamless.

(There are some minor exceptions: Rosetta emulates a G4, so you can't
run G5-specific code on an Intel Mac.)

Simple question, what would limit my being able to use the following
crucial apps for my business:

Fireworks MX 2004 version 7.0
Illustrator CS version 11.0
Photoshop CS version 8.0
Acrobat Pro version 7.1.0
BBEdit version 8.2.6

Of the above, I only use BBEdit (9.2.1), and it works fine on a MacBook
Pro running 10.6. I can't see BBEdit 8 in my archives but I expect it
would also work fine.

The rest should be OK under Mac OS X 10.5, but some might have problems
in 10.6.

Have a look at Macintouch's Snow Leopard compatibility page (and their
Leopard one, if it is still there), or http://snowleopard.wikidot.com
for compatibility issues.

Adobe's web site might also have some information about 10.5
compatibility for their products. They won't test your old versions
under 10.6.

Not that worried about the latter text editor, I would be happy to buy
the latest, it being modest in cost. But the rest, I would like to take
a while longer about.

Don't wait too long. It looks like you may be able to get upgrade
pricing from CS to CS4 (depending on exactly which package you currently
own and which bundle you want), but I wouldn't expect that to apply for
going directly from CS to CS5, which may be out within a year.

I would be buying with latest OS but not greatly in a hurry to use it.
If the above mainstay apps did not work on greater than Tiger, that
might be ok for a while for me, I could continue with Tiger.

You can't run Tiger on any Intel Mac model introduced after October
2007. If you want to run Tiger you'll have to buy an older secondhand
model.

Assuming you want to try running 10.5 and temporarily avoid 10.6 due to
compatibility issues:

You are unfortunately in a difficult position timing-wise. If you buy a
new Intel Mac right now, it will come with 10.6. If you are lucky you
MIGHT still be able to get one with 10.5 preinstalled and 10.6 as a "CPU
Drop-in DVD", so you can use 10.5 now and hold off installing 10.6 until
you've upgraded your applications to compatibile versions.

The longer you wait, the greater risk that a new Mac will come with 10.6
preinstalled, and no copy of 10.5.

Even in that case, the existing models are capable of running 10.5, if
you can locate a copy, but installing it will be complicated. The last
retail DVD I know of came with 10.5.6, which is too old to support any
model introduced in 2009. You would have to use another (older) Intel
Mac to install the system and update it to 10.5.8 in order to use it
with the current models.

At some point in the not too distant future, Apple will introduce the
next batch of new Mac models, and those models will ONLY work with 10.6.

--
David Empson
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
.

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