I still occasionally use an older 2007 Macbook that will not run anything newer than OSX 10.6.8. It handles my radio apps just fine.
Jeff - kg7hdz > On Apr 12, 2018, at 5:02 AM, Dave Sublette <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good morning David, > > A curious bit of circumstance forced me to use an earlier version of the > Apple O/S recently. My old Mac Mini died when its UPS went hysterical and > cycled the power violently several times. I bought a new one, complete > with 16GB RAM and the 1TB Fusion Drive (and a new power backup system). > > My old Mini setup ran Parallels and Win7/64 so I could run several amateur > radio programs on it. When I tried partitioning the new drive for 250GB > for Boot camp. It wouldn't do it. There is a BUG in High Sierra that > causes this and I have informed Apple of it. They have had others report > the same. They had o way to fix it at the time I was having the problem > in late March. > > My solution was to wipe the new drive and install an earlier version -- in > this case 10.6 -- temporarily. The older disk utility will partition the > new drive the way I needed it. After installing Win7/64, I reinstalled > High Sierra and all was well. > > This is an example of how I had to drop back to an older O/S, if only > temporarily. > > 73, > > Dave, K4TO > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:59 AM, David Fleming via Elecraft < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes.. No worries. All new releases of the Mac and Linux versions of the >> Elecraft Utilities will be 64-bit. As a result, OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) >> will no longer be supported and users of 32-bit Linux will need to upgrade >> to a 64-bit distro. This will be a gradual process as new revisions of the >> Utilities are released. >> >> Out of curiosity, is anyone still using OS X 10.6? >> >> David, W4SMT >> >> >> >> >> On Thursday, April 12, 2018, 1:26:56 AM EDT, John_N1JM <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Apple is starting to push 64 bit apps on the Mac. Will these change to 64 >> bit >> soon? >> >> 73, John N1JM >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
