Hi Peter, If your software won't run in Lion, the software won't run in Mavericks!
Starting with Lion, Apple removed Rosetta, the software that enabled older, PowerPC applications to run on Intel-based Macs. As a result, upgrading to Mavericks entails living without software that requires Rosetta. To find out what PowerPC software is on your disk, follow these steps: Use System Profiler to check all your Applications. Go to “About This Mac” under the Apple Menu, and click the “More Info” button. This will launch System Profiler. Scroll down the list of contents at the left of the window until you get to the “Software” section and click on “Applications”. Give the list a few moments to populate, then look for your application in the list. Widen the window if necessary until you see the “Kind” column. You can sort this column by clicking on the column header to make searching easier. Any items labelled “Classic” or “PowerPC” will not work in Lion. ONLY Universal & Intel will run in Lion OS X 10.7 or Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 or Mavericks OS X 10.9 RoaringApps keeps maintains a wiki listing hundreds of Mac and iOS apps and the current status of their compatibility with various operating system versions, as reported by users. Although this list is neither exhaustive nor definitive, it provides a quick way to check on the applications most important to you. (<http://roaringapps.com/apps?index=a>in case the inline link above doesn't work for you.) Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 11 Apr 2014, at 7:20 am, Peter Faulks <peterfau...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >> I see lots of questions about Mavericks, I now keep getting update requests >> to go to Mavericks. > > > My wife and I are both retired and we each have an iMac 9 with 2.66GHZ Intel > Core processors running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. With 2Gb Hard Drive. (Plus we > have a Mac Book Pro Lap Top, iPad and iPhones) > > We use Microsoft Office 2004, Adobe CS3 and Eudora but I don't want to have > to go out and purchase new software! Plus we have some recreational games > that keep us amused so if we upgrade to Mavericks, how much will this change > what we currently use and is it worth upgrading? > > PS we haven't upgraded to Lion because we heard that most of our software > will not run on Lion? and being oldies we are wary of change... > > Any suggestions > > Many thanks > > Peter & Irene > -- > Peter & Irene Faulks > Unit 1, 9 Newsam Close > PARKWOOD Western Australia 6147 > > Phone: +618 9457 0747 (h) > Fax: +618 9457 0444 > Peter Mobile: 0416 187 937 > Irene Mobile: 0439 933 404 > > Email: peterfau...@westnet.com.au > Web: http://members.iinet.net.au/~pfau...@westnet.com.au/index.html
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