On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Damn. Note for Mac users that Mac OS X 10.7.0 or later is required. >> That rules out folks like me who are still on 10.6.8 for various >> reasons. Grumble. (Getting harder and harder to avoid an annoying >> upgrade, and I used to look forward to new Mac OS X upgrades.) > > Thanks for that info. I'm in the same boat. > > D
Well Dave, I bit the bullet and installed Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3) yesterday. $19.99 in the App Store. Took all afternoon to download, but so far -- touch wood -- the upgrade has gone okay. I found a solution for sync'ing my Nokia cellphone (SyncMate - free) and figured out how to undo most of the UI damage / new features. I'm attempting to teach myself to scroll backwards but I may give up and undo that change too. Surprisingly it seems to be no worse a resource pig on my 2007 iMac than 10.6.8 was, possibly even a little lighter and faster, so my slowdown fears were unfounded. Of course my SSD graft-in of a couple of months ago was in preparation for this and has helped a great deal. I still have to find replacements for a couple of PowerPC apps that I used to calculate mat dimensions when framing, but for now I can run them on my even more ancient PowerBook. In summary: for twenty bucks go ahead and install Mountain Lion. Cheap upgrade. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
