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!

Comments

[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!