Each to their own of course, but its a similar decision for us at the
moment ...
We solved our scanner problem by switching to Image Capture and stopping
using Epson Scan (PowerPC app). I've just found I can use my USB Skype
phone without needing to load some old software (drivers) that came with
it, if I stick to using the onscreen keyboard instead of the phone's
keyboard (which we do anyway). So that's two PowerPC apps dealt with.
I'd love to find an alternative product to 'pre-scan' my emails. I use
MailWasher, from when I was a Windows user. Its old and works well, but
its PowerPC. The company has no plans at present to upgrade it, and has
been saying this for 5 years. I live in hope but cannot find a good
alternative (and that's OSX/Intel).
The main problem is Excel. My wife uses it and is a book-keeper. We
still run Office 2004 for Word and Excel. We do use NeoOffice a lot of
the time, but Excel spreadsheets do not always convert to/from it
properly. We also tried Pages/Numbers, but have the same problem with
some Excel spreadsheets. I think we may have to bite the bullet and get
Office 2011 (Mac) but the reviews are generally so terrible!
Then we're probably in a position to move our iMac and Mac Pro to Lion.
My old Intel MacBook Pro which can't run 64bit, but that gives me a
great excuse to replace it with the new Macbook Air.
Graham
on 25/07/2011 22:46 David Ransom sent the following:
I am a big Apple fan with an iMac Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.66 GHz machine
running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and I was looking forward to Lion coming
out. However, after reading comments on the internet, and all the
messages from SMUG early upgraders, I have decided that I will
probably not to take the plunge myself.
I have a Canon scanner that works perfectly. Thanks to people on this
list I was able to keep it working when I upgraded to Leopard by using
CanoScan Toolbox X version 4.1.3.0, a PowerPC application that will
not work if I go for Lion. It seems I would have to buy a new scanner
even though I have a perfectly good one now.
I have Creative Suite 4 from Adobe, and have not upgraded to Creative
Suite 5 because it is just too expensive, and CS4 is great for me. It
is not clear whether CS4 will actually work with Lion and I believe
there are problems with CS5.
If I was to go to Lion I would probably consider buying iStudio
Publisher from the App Store at £12.99, to use instead of Adobe
InDesign. I already own VectorDesigner that I could use instead of
Adobe Illustrator. I already own Pixelmator which I could use instead
of Photoshop. It would be nice to give Adobe a kick in the pants. The
problem is that I have a lot of InDesign files that I would like to be
able to open in a few years time . . .
I think I am going to stick with what I have now unless someone can
tell me why I should go for Lion. I wonder how many other people feel
the same way? Lion appears to be a bargain price upgrade at first
glance, but it could turn out to be very expensive to me in the long run.
David
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