Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm hearing that the genius folks at at least one Apple Store are saying it's okay to run Snow Leopard under Boot Camp or maybe Parallels. It's generally been the position of Apple that it was a major no-no to run in a virtual environment. I don't believe the latest Air can run anything earlier than Lion - the drivers just aren't there. My son has one of the new i7 Airs and just loves it. Adam On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > I regularly use two Mac computers, an older 12" aluminum Powerbook, and a > reasonably modern Intel 20" iMac. Each has a different operating system > which has been updated to the latest version. The 12" Powerbook uses OS > 10.4. The iMac, OS 10.6. I have been contemplating getting an 11" Mac Air > for travel. I understand that the OS loaded on the new Mac Airs is Lion (OS > 10.7) which will not run most of the legacy software I have on the older > Macs. Indeed I have legacy software dating back to the Mac 128 and I have > an > older computer (Powerbook Firewire, OS 9) in the event I need to run one of > those programs. Indeed some are quite good and I wish that emulators were > available for the older systems on the new computers. > Here is my specific question: Is there a way of loading OS 10.6 on the > newer > Mac Air to keep it compatible with the software I currently use? Or must I > buy buy one of last year's Mac Airs with OS 10.6? > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information