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sir pball

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6. You can virtualize the PPC stuff

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 12:27 AM

Sep 2012

Use Parallels to run a Snow Leopard VM and use your PPC apps in there. Bit convoluted but once it's set up it's easy as pie. Or SheepShaver if you have any really old Carbon apps that will run under OS9.

I'm on ML, but honestly there's nothing REALLY compelling about it or Lion beyond SL if you don't want iCloud or are madly in love with iOS - pretty much all that's been added is iOSified/simplified user interface stuff that I've not much use for and have switched off or avoided (reverse scrolling, Launchpad, Mission Control, &c.). The full-disk FileVault is nice, but I'm a paranoid little monkey like that

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FYI: iCloud syncing is instant and perfect. [View all] onehandle Jan 2012 OP

Did they fix the issue with 2 different accounts for mail and itunes? n2doc Jan 2012 #1

They still do not allow you to use multiple legacy accounts in one iCloud account. onehandle Jan 2012 #2

that's the one problem with it. Otherwise, it works great. ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2012 #3

You can virtualize the PPC stuff sir pball Sep 2012 #6

I plead ignorance eyeofnewt Jan 2012 #4

icloud is good but when it comes to privacy and backup....hm VoyagerI Sep 2012 #5

Apple and Amazon really screwed the pouch on Mat Honan's security mythology Sep 2012 #7

I use iCloud only for making sure that iBooks appear on both my phone and Lydia Leftcoast Sep 2012 #8

My OP is from January, but I've expanded my iCloud usage since then. onehandle Sep 2012 #9