Can the new intel Mac's run Panther?

Thanks,
SP

Firmware differences were the most "concrete" reasons why downgrading PPC-Tiger machines to Panther was not supported.
Actually it is more often the lack of drivers for the newer hardware that prevent use of earlier versions of Mac OS X on more recent hardware, not any block in the firmware (though that may also be present, but mostly as a precaution rather than a limitation).
I wouldn't call PPC-Tiger and Intel-Tiger so "completely different" programs.
I would. Though they come from the same (or mostly the same) source code, they're complied for completely different processors. So the net result is that the two versions are totally different executable code. This is why Panther (or Jaguar, etc.) will not run on an Intel-based Mac; the earlier versions of Mac OS X are all complied for PowerPC processors and cannot boot on an Intel processor.

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Will my printer and scanner work with the new intel mac?

My first post.. so I hope i am in the right place! (was in wrong place last attempt!)
I want to buy the new intel...but I would like to know for sure if it will work with my scanner and printer.
Printer is Epson Stylus Photo 2100 and the scanner is Microtek ScanMaker 4900.
I have emailed both Epson and Microtek... phoned Epson.. and I still do not know the answer.
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No, there's no way to talk to Apple technical support via email, and they probably could not or would not be able to answer any questions about performance with third-party products. I doubt that more than a handful of Apple employees, sales rep or tech, would have access to any benchmark data on Maya with any model of Mac, and those Apple people would probably be those working with the Pro VAR channel or directly with large production companies.
I just got off the phone with an Apple sales associate who emphatically confirmed that the i7 iMac can run "all that Adobe stuff", but she'd never heard of Maya.... fun....
Not terribly surprising; Maya is pretty specialized and the Apple Store phone reps are generalists working mostly with consumers. Most people running Maya would be working with an Apple VAR or would otherwise have access to specialists. You might try talking to an Apple Pro Video/Film VAR - there are a number around the country though none in Salt Lake, apparently - or asking in the Autodesk forums:
http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/
If you search for "iMac", you'll find some comments, though none I can find yet regarding performance with the new iMac models. But if you post asking if anyone has experience with Maya on the i7, you might get useful responses.
Regards.
P.S.
And on top of that I can't buy a 27 inch display separately
Well, you can, and they're not terribly expensive; under $400.00. But that might be more than your budget could accept, which may be what you meant. I'd elect a smaller primary monitor and go with two displays in any case, even with an iMac. I find it much better for workflow to have a monitor for the primary canvas and a separate one for tool palettes, etc.
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hi
I recently got a new mac intel laptop and found that none of
my projector movies are supported by the system. This includes
pieces made between 1998 and 2006 on versions of director upto 8.5.
Actually a piece I finished in Febuary of this year is showing as
not supported!
Is all this work obselete now? Are there any third party
solutions to getting these works to still play - other than
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Originally posted by:
Nick Crowe
...This includes pieces made between 1998 and 2006 on
versions of director upto 8.5. Actually a piece I finished in
Febuary of this year is showing as not supported!
nick
Did you mean to say "versions of Director AFTER 8.5"?
Director versions up to 8.5 were only capable of creating
projectors that ran in Mac OS 9.x or below. On recent Mac computers
running OSX, OS9 was able to be run in an emulation mode called
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you use a later version of Director, you should be able to create
OSX versions of your projectors that are reported to work on the
newer systems (I don't have a machine to test). Of course you need
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in OSX.
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I have my old 1.25 Ghz PowerPC Mac Mini running 10.4.11 and all was well and happy. Then Security Update 2007-009 happened and all went to ....well... you know and, yes, it was bad! Went to Apple, got it running of sorts as they re-installed the OS, but they used an old version of OS X. (10.4.7. Can you believe that?) This caused other problems. It continues to have all sorts of difficulties, as I have had to get applications to re-recognize that the computer is back up to 10.4.11. Currently, I am struggling with trying to get iTunes to access it's music folders on the external hard drives. Realized that I hadn't even gotten around to figuring out whether or not some of my other applications work, like some of the games and third party, etc.
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I know that I am vacillating back and forth as to what to do. Thanks so much for being patient with me. All of your advice is really appreciated and I am at least closing in on deciding on my strategy. Probably will follow your first response advice, especially considering that some of the third party apps may not have updates to handle Leopard quite yet. Anyway... it's a good strategy since everything is on the externals anyway.
You can say that fine.
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