Alright, get ready for a long post replying to almost
everything everybody's typed... feel free to skip to your quote and only read that. But before you do: please don't let this thread get turned into one that must be wastelanded. I'm asking for advice (as
@GoopnyPants and
@eyoungren have so kindly given), not your opinion on my forum situation.
I haven't made the switch. I supplemented, but my MBP is not my daily use Mac.
In any case, when I got the MBP I cloned my PowerBook hard drive to the MBP. That gave me Leopard right away. I had Snow Leopard, but I wanted to upgrade from Leopard so everything transferred versus installing and then trying to move stuff over.
Worked fairly well.
You're going to be limited to some older versions of Chrome and Firefox but nothing too bad yet. It is rumored that someone is working on a TenSixFox which would function like T4Fx but under SL.
You'll have access to a few other browsers that won't run on PowerPC Macs such as Rockmelt (dead and buried) and so forth.
Almost anything that will run under Leopard will run on SL. The Adobe Creative Suite is limited to CS5. CS6 requires additional specs.
Finally, you can run real Windows on your Mac. There's a little finessing, but you can get Windows 7 on it if you want.
Thanks for all this! Cloning the hard drive is a good idea, but I'll probably use the migration assistant as it has the option to not transfer apps, and most of my apps have newer versions for SL.
I'm pretty sure Firefox 48 will work fine; nobody's complained about TFF45 yet! Thanks for letting me know about TenSixFox though! I hate Chrome, so that's not happening. Waterfox (suggested by
@GoopnyPants) sounds like the best option at the moment though as my iMac and MacBook I'm planning to buy are 64-bit.
Windows? LOL! The reason I use Macs is OS X. Otherwise I'd be using Linux. But thanks anyway.
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Screw them.
You should not let a couple saps drive you away when you are an asset to any forum community here, which you are.
And, that Tiger Sierra theme looked great. I doubt anyone's going to continue that themselves.
Also, doesn't Apple itself parade around the positivity of diversity and it's effects? Diversity essentially means more people.
Remember, we're all here for the same purpose and driving goal. To make all of our old Macs as useful as possible. To squeeze the very last bit of juice out of them until they're totally finished.
And (Assuming most of us here are American), to quote Barack Obama on his last days as president: "We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're all on the same team."
We're all Mac people first. We're all on the Apple train, and a colossal chunk of us want the same thing for our company. And a whole lot of us are still rocking the racer known as the PowerPC architecture.
And that's what really matters.
I agree with almost everything. And as the people who drove me out of here in the first place aren't coming back and posting often, I'll probably go back to posting as usual. However, I won't have as much to post about as half of my PPCs are leaving!
@AmazingHenry: By the way, my theme mods for Leopard also work in Snow Leopard. But XtraFinder also works in SL too so I get genuine black backgrounds on my folders!
Great! That'll look great with the BlackBook! Can the window titles by white also?
Don't expect too much from a BlackBook, these things run hot as hell and the keyboard is crap. But I like the speakers, that's a nice design to put them on the back against the display.
As for browers I use Firefox 45esr, Google Chrome and Roccat. FF is very stable and doesn't use too much resources, Chrome is really good with all types of video and Roccat is just damn fast.
Well, I'm getting the newer Core 2 Duo version... maybe Apple fixed these issues? FF is likely what I'll be using.
If you want something update, I would suggest you Waterfox, a browser based on the latest version of firefox (54), adapted to run on OS X 10.5+ with a 64 bit processor.
It works quite well on my 17" iMac C2D (os x lion)
Thanks! As said above, both my Intels will be C2D, so this will work great!
