---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: Upgrade to what Date: Saturday, 08. June 2013 From: Bruce Ryan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] > Other thought - a modern mac will have the best hardware guarantees, and it > is possible (though maybe not strictly legal) to make Leopard virtual > machines under VirtualBox, running on MountainLion. So you'd have the OS > you're used to, running at the speed of an up-to-date bit of hardware. And > you'd have the opportunity to buy modern versions of your software as and > when you want or can afford to.
Actually it is legal. It is legal to run Mac OS X under a real Mac, provided you acquired a license to do so. This means that you have to buy Snow Leopard in addition to the Mac that comes with e.g. Lion or Montain Lion. A downgrade-option or some kind of automatic agreement to run Snow Leopard virtually under a newer version of OS X does not exist. So, what is legal? 1) Get a modern Mac with Lion or newer. 2) Get Mac OS X 10.6. 3) Install it virtually on a Mac. (VirtualBox for example, which is free) 4) Run your PowerPC Mac OS X applications on Rosetta of your virtualized Snow Leopard. BTW, you could also virtually run Leopard or Tiger/Intel for that cause. FYI starting from Lion it actually IS legal to virtualize it on a Mac as a second free license. So, if you have a Mac that came with Lion, it is legal to virtually install Lion a second time (on the same Mac, inside a Virtual Machine). But this right did not exist under Snow Leopard and prior versions of OS X. Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
