On 24/06/2011, at 8:48 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
> > > 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) Hi Daniel & Peter, Excellent posts! I’m tossing up whether to Install Lion on an external firewire drive (as Daniel is aware, I have heaps of spare drives ;-), OR “Install & Dual-Boot OS X 10.7 Lion & OS X 10.6.7" on my MBP? This way I would have TWO separate installations of Mac OS X, (Lion & Snow Leopard) on my MBP & can boot into Lion for testing purposes. If I find I don’t want to keep Lion, I can uninstall it without having to do a system restore from a Snow Leopard backup. i.e Create a 20GB partition for Mac OS X Lion (after of course BACKING UP my current Snow Leopard system). I would then still use Snow Leopard as my primary daily working system, but boot into Lion for testing. I will give this a lot more thought before I decide which way to go. But I would be very interested in your comments on which way I should go (watch it Daniel … if you suggest “where I should go, instead of which" :-) Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD 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]>
