PowerPC Applications are no longer supported since Lion was installed
Would someone please tell me what this is all about? My applications are not runnning since I downloaded Lion. Why would Apple do this? Why are they forcing me to purchase new software? Isn't a Mac Pro supposed to handle these applications? Why would they make an OS like this?
Please tell me that I am doing something wrong here and Apple is not costing me a fortune in new software.
EDS513 wrote:
I myself am EXTREMELY upset about this change with Lion. I feel I wasted my $$$ upgrading because I am a NURSING student who spent a lot of money on learning tools to make myself "A BETTER NURSE for in the future", a nurse that needs these tools that are no longer supported and able to use because of Lion-I bet the people that came up with that not so bright idea did not think that well when they get sick, their nurse that had a MAC could have provided better care if she/he would have been able to use her learning tools Related to NURSING AND PROVIDING CARE FOR PATIENTS. I do not think these people clearly thought this through. I do not believe too many learning tools for any field these days comes with a cd strictly for Mac users. And what ***** is I have an IMAC and a Macbook Pro. They need to fix this. This semester is almost up and I really need to be able to use these tools in my Macs.
I know this thread is old but I had to respond because I FEEL YOUR PAIN!! I am also a nursing student and for months now NONE of my resources work anymore!! I've been using my bf's PC and I'm getting sick of it and finally am taking the time today to try and revert back to Leapord. I can't take it anymore!!!!!!
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You have three options, depending on how old your Mac is.
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I installed Lion 10.7.4. Went to use Photoshop Cs and got a popup window. You can't open the application Adobe Photoshop CS because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. Is there a way of getting this to work or do I have to get newest version of all of my Power PC apps?
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PowerPC applications are unsupported in newer versions. You can upgrade Photoshop or you can install Snow Leopard in a partition.
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2. Go to Partitions tab, press + button, create a new partition and press Apply
3. Insert the Snow Leopard install DVD and reboot pressing C key
4. Install it in the new partition
5. If you want to change boot, go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and select 10.7 -
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Hello:
Office 2004 was written for the PowerPC chip only. There is no emulation in OS X 10.7.
I encountered the same issue sometime ago when I updated to OS X 10.7.
There is one option that I might mention (other than buy Office 2011). I switched to Apple's iWork. Pages (the word processing package) is completely compatible with Word. If you export Pages documents, you can export them in formats compatible with Microsoft programs. iWork also contains programs that are compatible with Office presentation and spreadsheet packages.
The reason I mention this is that the cost is about 1/2 of the cost of Office.
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What version of iPhoto do you have?
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