Lion will be here soon!

[kareila]

I am amused - but in retrospect, not surprised - that a hot topic on Macintouch right now is migrating email from Eudora to something that will run under 10.7.

Does anyone here feel locked into any Rosetta apps? Any other thoughts on the new OS?

I am lazy and only have 10.6 running on my newest Mac which came with it preinstalled. My laptop is still running 10.5. I am interested in other people's experiences with upgrades, though!

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[foxfirefey]

Oh god I have been trying so hard to upgrade to 10.6. Something is wrong with my admin user account, though, so once I upgrade I run into horrible "permissions" problems trying to install any updates.

[kareila]

Oh yuck. My sympathies.

[roadrunnertwice]

I'll be needing a new spreadsheet when the ancient version of Excel that came with my old iBook conks out. I don't even LIKE Excel 2004, it's just that I've been waiting for the next version of Numbers before deciding whether to drop the dollars on the latest Office, and it's apparently not forthcoming.

There's always OpenOffice, but if there's one thing worse than a dog-slow seven-year-old Microsoft product running in an emulation layer, it's THAT.

[kareila]

Ha, I'm still running Excel 2004 too, although I've moved my simpler spreadsheets into Google Docs for convenience / iPad access.

It's not ancient until they stop releasing security updates for it! :)

[amadi]

I've been running that same version of Excel, I think, as well. I can live without Word, because I don't do anything in Word I can't do in Google Docs, but Docs spreadsheets are not as full-functioned as Excel.

And at the same time, I've never used Pages or Numbers and I have no idea how they compare, and I'm nervous to go wholesale to them.

[roadrunnertwice]

Yeah. I had to spend some major quality time with Excel 2007 at $oldjob, and was surprised at how far ahead of the competition it actually was. (For all its annoyances.)

Numbers '09 was promising, but kind of slow, and it seemed oddly print-focussed, whereas I think of spreadsheets as a mostly abstract medium. Apple tends to iterate impressively, so the next version could well rock, but it's taking its sweet time.

[invisionary]

I've been running 10.7 previews for the last several months on my Macbook Pro. I feel the same about it as I have every update, it's an evolution rather than groundbreaking. The same basic ways of interacting with it (Finder, Spotlight, etc.) haven't radically changed since Tiger.

The dance school my daughter goes to is locked into Rosetta because they are locked into Appleworks. I'm not sure what I should be migrating them to at whatever point they're forced to use something else.

[kareila]

If they're used to AppleWorks, NeoOffice might seem like a viable alternative.

[turlough]

I've been clinging to AppleWorks for far too long so I guess I should give NeoOffice a try. Can you make simple databases with it too, like you can with AppleWorks 6? I have some really old databases (made on FileMaker once upon a time :-) that I still use and I would love to be able to keep on using them.

[kareila]

I haven't tried it, but here's a wiki page outlining the necessary steps:

http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Opening_AppleWorks_documents#Database

[turlough]

THANK YOU!! This is exactly what I need. I rooted around a little on the NeoOffice site and couldn't find anything about it.

Now, if I can only find the time to actually do this...

[msilverstar]

ooo thanks!

[emma]

My upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard went really smoothly. I did it as soon as Snow Leopard came out because I got one of the incredibly cheap upgrade deals because my Mac was so new. I'll definitely be getting Lion, and I don't believe I have any applications that won't be supported (though there's always that chance you'll suddenly go.... "oh. But I needed that!". I'm quite excited by Lion even though nothing is truly groundbreaking, but all of the improvements and tweaks look good and shiny and I wants them! It doesn't sound like a whole new OS but given that I quite like the old one I'm not too bothered about that, as long as the price is adjusted accordingly (I actually have no idea how much Lion will be in the UK). I predict I will really not like the scroll direction change (even though I have an iPhone... you just use the devices differently!), but that does appear to be a preference you can change.