![]() Adobe Creative Suite:versions CS2 and earlier.While I tug on my mane and mull over the alternatives, Mac users please take a minute to review the list of applications that are not compatible with Lion – before you find yourself caged in with me. I’ll keep my Mac on OS X Lion, and whenever I need Photoshop, I’ll use the outdated version on my antiquated PC. I was starting to feel caged in.įor now I’ve decided to punt on the issue. I do of course back everything up to an external hard drive, but things were really getting complicated. There’s no guarantee my data would survive the rollback. Rich pointed out that operating systems, like most software, are really not designed to go backwards. I consulted in-house tech support, who for the record advised against upgrading to Lion in the first place, on the grounds that it was too new. I’ll just rollback my Mac to Snow Leopard. “I’ll never get that iPhone!” I roared, pacing the floor and switching my tail angrily. Abandoning the suite and simply buying Photoshop CS5 as a standalone product? Grrr… that’s $699 too. Jumping three points from CS2 to CS5 will set me back an astonishing $699. How much is that? That’s $399.īut remember – my Photoshop CS2 is ancient. I’ll just purchase the Creative Suite upgrade, even though I really only use Photoshop, and move on with things. To get back the $199 I already spent, I had to submit a “case” to Adobe, promise to destroy the installation file (done), and hope they grant a refund. You can’t just upgrade one program within the suite. It was purchased as part of the Adobe Creative Suite in 2006, and as it turns out – once you purchase a software suite, you’ve committed to upgrading the entire suite. So I decide to throw Lion a bone and purchase the $199 upgrade.īut when I attempt to install the application, it won’t accept the serial number from my existing Photoshop program. ![]() Told you I wasn’t an early adopter □ Bone Number OneĪdmittedly, I haven’t upgraded Photoshop in, ahem, a while. What I didn’t realize was how “ancient” my copy of Photoshop CS2 was. Which means all PowerPC applications will cease to function in OS X Lion. David Pogue stated in his review that Apple, in the name of streamlining and moving forward, has dropped support for Rosetta, “a software kit that allowed ancient programs to run on the Intel chips that Apple started using in 2006.” That’s the year Apple switched to the Intel processing chip. PowerPC is the old Mac processor type prior to 2006. The “PC” here stands for “Performance Computing” and has nothing to do with that other PC, the personal computer. Imagine my surprise when I attempted to open Photoshop, an application I use daily, and saw this message: Two hundred and fifty regal upgrades in all! Then, the Big Bite ![]() And of course new applications like Launch Pad, a better looking version of the Applications folder. With the new multi-touch gestures, a swipe of a paw to your trackpad or mouse this way and that lets you do various things – a convergence with the iPad / iPhone navigation style. There’s the full-screen feature, which lets you maximize your current window to fill the entire screen with one click (something the PC has had for years, by the way). Mail has some good improvements, like showing all emails in the same thread on the same page. My calendar and address book apps look nicer. $30 later, I was purring contentedly while batting around the new Mac OS X Lion. Then David Pogue, the New York Times tech writer, gave it a positive review, and that’s all the push I needed. I read some reviews, which all gave it the green light. But since I started writing a tech blog earlier this year, I’ve been paying closer attention. Normally, these things fly under my radar until the early adopters have ironed out all the kinks. If you’re a Mac user, you may have heard about the new operating system, Mac OS X Lion, which became available for sale last week. ![]() See how I got a nasty bite from the new Mac OS X Lion. For major software releases, it’s often best to avoid being an early adopter and let others work the bugs and kinks out first.
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