On 24/06/2011, at 1:14 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
> Ok, so I'm coming in a bit late on this one,..I meant to reply a while ago, > but just got stuck with work and didn't get back to it,.. > So I'm going to add my 2cents worth now,... > <major content omitted> All good points Daniel. It's always good policy to hang back for a little while to see what implications for others of such a major upgrade have been. We who have been around Macs for so long have been through it all before: the change from 68000 to Power PC, the move to Mac OS X, the change to Intel - all have present their own shares of heartache and pain for a period of months (and some times years) following the change, and there are some fondly-remembered classic software packages from years gone by whose like we will never see again, but that's the price of progress, and Apple have become the masters of change. Already, the new version of Final Cut Pro is being met with howls of protest in some quarters, especially by those who have replced their existing versions with the new one without taking proper precautions. Fortunately, the precautions available these are days are inexpensive and safe. Just invest in an external hard drive (it's hard to find them smaller than 500 Mb any more), clone your computer over to using Carbon Copy Cloner (free) and install Lion onto the clone. You can then boot into the clone for evaluation purposes and to test all your important software. This gives you plenty of time to wait for bug fixes, third party software updates, etc, and still explore the new features without compromising your important working machine. AppleWorks will be the main problem for most people, I would think. The following mix of software will take care of most problems, I would think: AppleWorks WP files - will open in Pages (iWork) AppleWorks Spreadsheet files - will open in Numbers (iWork) AppleWorks Database files - export as text files and open with Bento (www.filemaker.com) AppleWorks Drawing files - Open with Intaglio (http://www.purgatorydesign.com/Intaglio/) or Eazydraw (http://www.eazydraw.com/ - NOT the App Store version) AppleWorks Presentation files - will open in Keynote (iWork) Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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]>
