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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.