I get the same message about it being a ppc granted I have been trying to use torrent downloads
. I don't want to buy a game until I know it will run. I bought this mac a few months ago. its a macbook pro I5 series so it should be sufficient for strategy games or another software out currently. I love the old world of warcraft3 and command and conquer series. If I want anything new or a rpg or a shooter I'll just buy it for my ps3. I grew up on warcraft and command and conquer so it'd be awesome to play those old games. Can I run bootcamp to be able to choose between running snow leopard and Lion? I use Lion for production purposes for recording music and making music videos so it's still useful in that aspect just like to play my old games on snow leopard.
You don't need to steal it, just read the specs. If it's not a Universal Binary or Intel only, it won't run under Lion. Period.
From my understanding, Snow Leopard won't run under Bootcamp. I thought they had changed the licensing to allow it to be virtualized under Fusion or Parallels. Other than that, there's a hack on here somewhere that'll let you pop it in virtualizing, but for me it seems too much of a hassle.
For me to play older games, I'm thinking of either using Parallels (from the bundle) and playing Windows games or getting a PowerPC on the cheap, which would also let me see how Apple was before Intel.
You could also go to Best Buy and get a Windows 7 PC to see how the games run. If you like it, go back to Best Buy and pay for it.