Hi Chris, One more thing. OS X 10.7 Lion due out in June is dropping support for Rosetta. So if you want to upgrade to Lion when it comes out, try to upgrade or replace your PowerPC based apps.
Cheers, Carlo On 2011-04-04, at 11:46, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On 04/04/2011, at 11:11 AM, Chris Burton wrote: > >> >> Morning muggers >> >> I am just setting up my new 15" MBPro I had delivered from Daniel last >> week...yum yum what a beautiful machine this one is. My first new one for >> nearly 4 years!! > > Oh yes they are a beautiful, sleek, fast machine. >> >> I used migration assistant and mostly all went well, except that I noticed >> quite a few ghosted ? in the dock. I have gone through them one by one and >> most now have icons attached but some want 'Rosetta' loaded before they run. > > After Migration you find it better to Open your Applications the first time > from within Applications folder, not from the Dock. > That often corrects the ? in the dock. > > >> Do I need to do this, or just update the various programs as I dont >> understand what Rosetta really does but know it is software required for >> some early versions on OSX is that right? > > I always suggest before upgrading to Snow Leopard that people check their > Applications and Upgrade any PowerPC Applications to Universal versions (if > they exist). > > I would go through all your applications and check for updates. > Use System Profiler to check all your Applications, it will show if > Universal, Intel, or PowerPC. > > Obviously, Classic or OS 9 apps won’t run on an Intel Mac. > > Rosetta and Quicktime 7 are both included on the Mac OS X 10.6 installation > DVD, both are designated as optional installs by default. > >> >> Thanks for any help >> >> Chris > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
