With all the stuff thrown out was the Jewel Case that the Office 2008 DVD had come with, and hence the Product Key. Having just bought new equipment, there had been boxes everywhere, and a clean up had been done to cull all the boxes, and stuff that wasn’t needed anymore. Last thing that was going on as I was planning on leaving was that they were installing Adobe CS3 Design Standard (Academic) and Office 2008 for Mac (Home and Student Edition). You know the usual in regards to changing from PC to Mac (they also got a new 20″ iMac), printer issues, Mail issues, etc. Of course I got roped into fixing the other problems that they were going through with their new Mac setup. At least the permanent Mac OS menu bar means that, unlike hapless Windows users, Mac sufferers from Office's Fluent interface still have the familiar old-fashioned menus available.I was round at a friends place last night, delivering my old MacBook which I sold to them (after having it repaired). Office 20 are options, but many – your humble correspondent included – hate the "ribbon" interface. This may not seem like a major drawback, but it means you can't run the last version of Microsoft Office with the classic interface – Office 2004, equivalent to Office 2003 for Windows. Lion also drops Rosetta, the instruction-set-translation system from Transitive Technologies that hitherto allowed Intel-powered Macs to run PowerPC applications. ![]() It's a hefty 4GB disk image, too, so you'll need a fast, unmetered connection.Įven if you sensibly held out for one of the later, faster Intel Mac models, you're in trouble if you're still hanging on to any older PowerPC apps. It will only be available for download from the Mac App Store – not on physical media. Lion's distribution is a little odd, too. Speaking of upgrades, in our testing, only upgrading from Snow Leopard worked trying to upgrade a 10.5 system yielded a "not supported" message and a bare-metal install started but failed at the first reboot. You also need at least 2GB of RAM just to install Lion, but that's not such a big deal – it's a sensible and affordable upgrade. It is possible to replace the Core-1-series CPU in some Macintel models with a Core 2, but this still leaves you with 32-bit firmware, so it won't help. So if you were one of the first intrepid fanboys to move from a PowerPC Macintosh to a new Intel Mac, you're screwed. All have 32-bit CPUs, while Lion requires a 64-bit capable chip – a Core 2 Duo or better. The first Intel Macs – note the shorter name they're not "Macintoshes" any more – were the Core Duo iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac mini, together with the Core Solo Mac mini. 10.7 won't install or run on the original Core Duo and Core Solo Macs from 2006. Hardware-wise, Lion flips the finger to early Intel adopters. This means that Lion is OS X's first big overhaul since 2006. 2008's "Snow Leopard", version 10.6, was as its name suggests a relatively minor release, which mainly just dropped support for PowerPC machines. Two years later, 10.5, "Leopard", was the most recent major update. Mac OS X development has slowed markedly since the release of OS X 10.4 – "Tiger" – in 2004. ![]() If you're a fondleslab addict and folders are too complicated, there's Launchpad (click to enlarge)
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