Downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard

[Nychot]

I just got my new MBP with lion but i cant use my version of ms office for mac. so i called the apple store which is a few miles from me, made an appointment brought it in with my leopard and snow leopard disks and they said cool, we dont even need your disks, took it in the back and 15 minutes lion is gone and snow leopard 10.6.8 is on board with office and word working perfectly. now i am in total synch with my mac mini running SL and office. will do lion when its more stable and i figure out a compatible word processor.

 

[alust2013]

Are you on office 04?

 

[Nychot]

Are you on office 04?

Yes

 

[alust2013]

Ah. Either of the newer versions will work with Lion.

 

[Nychot]

Ah. Either of the newer versions will work with Lion.

08 and 11? I hear 11 is a pita brcause its constantly monitiored by ms. I'm not sure what the issues are with 08. I'm also not sure if my 04 word files are compatible with 08. In any case im happy right now. In the short time i had lion i found a lot of things i didnt like and some i did but i feel secure with snow leopard.

 

[eagandale4114]

08 and 11? I hear 11 is a pita brcause its constantly monitiored by ms. I'm not sure what the issues are with 08. I'm also not sure if my 04 word files are compatible with 08. In any case im happy right now. In the short time i had lion i found a lot of things i didnt like and some i did but i feel secure with snow leopard.

You need 2011 as 2008 use rosetta for the installer.
Also don't try downgrading. Major system instability.

 

[Theclamshell]

I just got my new MBP with lion but i cant use my version of ms office for mac. so i called the apple store which is a few miles from me, made an appointment brought it in with my leopard and snow leopard disks and they said cool, we dont even need your disks, took it in the back and 15 minutes lion is gone and snow leopard 10.6.8 is on board with office and word working perfectly. now i am in total synch with my mac mini running SL and office. will do lion when its more stable and i figure out a compatible word processor.

Hmmmm, one genius tried to install SL and it failed and another said it was not possible.

 

[henry72]

I'd highly recommend you upgrade the Office 2011 (You should be able to find it easily ) instead of downgrade it. That's too much work to do. I also think 2011 is the best version of Office

One quick question, does you MacBook Pro box have a "Blue" Lion wallpaper/desktop on it? Thanks.

 

[realchimera]

Can I sell my legal official registration number for cheap on this forum ?

 

[Nychot]

Hmmmm, one genius tried to install SL and it failed and another said it was not possible.

They were wrong. In fact my genius said he did the same thing on his own machine because he had software that was incompatible with lion. There sre no problems. When the 2011 mbp came out it had sl on it. Then lion came out and apple put lion on everything.

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You need 2011 as 2008 use rosetta for the installer.
Also don't try downgrading. Major system instability.

No instability at all. In fact the 2011 moc came with sl before lion was introduced. My grnius said he downgraded because he had pgms that didnt run on lion. Apple just wants you to THINK the mbp 2011 requires lion for whatever reason.

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I'd highly recommend you upgrade the Office 2011 (You should be able to find it easily ) instead of downgrade it. That's too much work to do. I also think 2011 is the best version of Office

One quick question, does you MacBook Pro box have a "Blue" Lion wallpaper/desktop on it? Thanks.

Not too much work for me at all. He did it in 20 minutes while i chatted with some chick. Now i dont have to spend a hundred or so dollars for office 11 that i hear is an issue with ms monitoring. And i dont have to deal with early lion issues.

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I'd highly recommend you upgrade the Office 2011 (You should be able to find it easily ) instead of downgrade it. That's too much work to do. I also think 2011 is the best version of Office

One quick question, does you MacBook Pro box have a "Blue" Lion wallpaper/desktop on it? Thanks.

Not too much work for me at all. He did it in 20 minutes while i chatted with some chick. Now i dont have to spend a hundred or so dollars for office 11 that i hear is an issue with ms monitoring. And i dont have to deal with early lion issues.

 

[wikus]

I'd consider going from Lion to Snow Leopard an upgrade;

longer battery life
less heat
less bugs
better software compatibility
better memory optimization
more options for customization (expose, anyone?)

Lion is just one step forward to allowing Apple lock down the user experience a la iOS. Do not want.