Elements For Os 10.6.8

I'm a happy Mac Pro 5.1 (2010) owner with OSX 10.6.8 (it came supplied with the machine and I've seen no reason to upgrade as it works for me -I'm not one of those people who 'needs' to upgrade as soon as a new version comes along).Alas, more and more software these days demand 10.7 or 10.8 (Lightroom being one of them) and I'm wondering if I should take the plunge or not. Cost isn't the issue, but rather performance, reliability, software/hardware compatibility and generally if this will become an improvement or the opposite. As I haven't actually used 10.7 or 10.8 I don't know too much about it but read criticism about them being 'Bloatware', 'a dumbed down IOS-like OS with eye-candy as the so-called improvements' etc.

I also read that a lot of pros out there see 10.6.8. As the final 'real' Mac OS and that everything after that became an 'iToy'. So heated discussions aside, what are the facts surrounding this, and your experiences? I've been using Macs for over 20 years.

I also maintain about a dozen Mac's for family and friends. Here's my experience.I've rolled back 3 friends computers from 10.7 or.8 to.6. I do use 10.8 on a 2.8 iMac and a 2.13 Air. Both originally 10.6 boxes. The fresh install on the Air went well and it runs well. The upgrade on the iMac was the worst install I've ever done.

It took me two weeks to get everything running correctly. While I should do a fresh install, there are other mitigating reason why I still consider a rollback: some of my old utilities don't run on 10.8 and there are no new releases, Safari runs very slow, the Finder is slower. Benefits are limited to being able to run Aperture 3.4.4/5 and Mail runs better and Aperture 3.4.4/5. A 2.53 mini has been left on 10.6 even though I prefer the same OS on all machines in the house.I run 10.8 because I shoot with a Fuji XTrans camera and wanted to go back to Aperture as I was not getting along with Lightroom's library. For that reason alone I stick with it but there is a clone of 10.6 for each machine's OS still kept updated for the potential day I throw in the towel and rollback.If you do it, I'd recommend hanging on to a clone of 10.6 for a while and doing a fresh install.If it looks like my boxes are old and newer hardware might be called for. I've gone from a new computer each year to no new purchases for quite a while.

An iPad has replaced all but a low percent of my computer use and I've been underwhelmed by Apple's new machines for quite some time. Like you, cost is not an issue. Stop reading and try it for yourself.The internet is full of complaints and hysteria, but 99.99% of what you read is either user error or Apple hatred or 'news' that is designed to attract readership rather than inform.Over the past 10 years, I've rarely had any problems with updates and on the few times where there has been a problem, the fix has been released in a few days.

And this is despite all the ranting and raving on the internet about each and every single update.The exception to this is making sure the updates are compatible with whatever else you have on your computer, including updates available or soon to be available for the other software. A lot of people tell me 10.8 is better, I don't care to judge, I use tools that don't require the 10.7 or 10.8 update, however they're getting thinner on the ground. I suppose once the last update of CS6 is broken I'll have to look elsewhere, or update.As it is Aperture Camera RAW updates are not available and this is my biggest concern. It means I can no longer get updates so RAW files will work with Preview.

However, this is merely an annoyance rather than a problem for me and while this continues to be the case I'll stick with it.The good news is that Scott Forstall is gone and OS X 10.9 should show the first signs of OS X development under Johnny Ives and apparently he was never particularly happy with the faux leather and many other 'features' that Forstall added starting with 10.7 and iOS 6. Gurgeh wrote:Do you know if it will be possible to upgrade Snow Leopard to Mavericks without having to do intermediate upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion? I didn't see this mentioned so far, but maybe I missed it.It might not be officially but I've seen people upgrade directly from 10.4 and 10.5 to 10.7 and 10.8 using a disc with the installer image burned on it.

I think 10.9 might actually be decent, but I won't be upgrading my 10.6 partition, I'll be overwriting my partition with 10.7 on it so it shouldn't be a problematic upgrade. You can make a lot of the 10.7.x UI annoyances go away with various terminal commands or with a neat little utility called.Once you get away from the Really Stupid Things they did, it's fine. I upgraded solely because I wanted to sync via iCloud and the easiest way to do that is to go to 10.7.I'm skipping 10.8 - it has no features that appeal to me. 10.9 seems to have some worthwhile upgrades, but, as usual, NEVER buy or upgrade a.0 version of anything unless you have some deep seated desire to be frustrated and annoyed.My 3.1 version MacPro won't run anything past 10.7 because of the video cards. So I'm waiting to see how the Darth Machine works out (my guess, poorly) and then upgrade the video card on my four year old but still perfectly useable MacPro. Lumixdude wrote:A lot of people tell me 10.8 is better, I don't care to judge, I use tools that don't require the 10.7 or 10.8 update, however they're getting thinner on the ground. I suppose once the last update of CS6 is broken I'll have to look elsewhere, or update.As it is Aperture Camera RAW updates are not available and this is my biggest concern.

It means I can no longer get updates so RAW files will work with Preview. However, this is merely an annoyance rather than a problem for me and while this continues to be the case I'll stick with it.The good news is that Scott Forstall is gone and OS X 10.9 should show the first signs of OS X development under Johnny Ives and apparently he was never particularly happy with the faux leather and many other 'features' that Forstall added starting with 10.7 and iOS 6.Mr. Ives is not a software developer, he is a designer concerned mostly with appearances. I wouldn't expect much more than a change in aesthetics, as the keynote showed.

DON'T DO IT!! I have an old (4 years) MacBook Pro and upgraded to Maverick, unfortunately. The upgrade obsolecesed my word and other applications (according to a local Mac repair guy).

My repair guy said that he has numerous Mac users who have to bring in their laptops to get their laptop AND software upgraded because they upgraded to Mavericks. The reason we come in for repair is that the 'UPGRADE' results in LONG minutes of the infuriating 'spining wheel' while the damn systems are trying to adapt. That spining wheel experience. Btw, is 10 to 30 seconds for every command! You haven't made a compelling case for upgrading.In my experience once you have hardware and software that old upgrading is of marginal benefit. If any at all.

Either freeze it in place or get new hardware and software, and run it in conjunction with the old machine and its software.It's not just the system, it's all the old software you may be running and hardware you have connected. Printer drivers, kexts, utilities, etc. That system is so old that even finding and downloading old software for it may be a pain or impossible. So your attached scanners or printers may have issues. If you had done incremental upgrades of everything as time went by you'd be in better shape. But the list of stuff that might break may be unexpectedly large now, so maybe not worth messing with if it still works for you. Snow Leopard was a first iteration product and while good for its time is very inefficient compared to subsequent iterations of the operating system code.

Critics are right that to some extent 'bloatware' had dulled the increased efficiency of newer code but newer CPUs are so much faster than what the OP has that it hardly matters for the way 99% of OSX users actually work.The situation is comparable to comparing the speed of Windows XP to subsequent versions of Windows that evolved out of Vista. The objective difference is truly remarkable despite the irrational shade thrown at Microsoft.For good or bad despite eye candy type design changes the GUI of OSX has not evolved and remains at Win XP levels.

From that standpoint there is no advantage to updating the OS. OSX users seem to find that static GUI design attractive. Apple is trying to evolve the iPad GUI but putting no effort into the desktop OS.The hardware in the OPS's machine is as ancient as OSX 10.6 and I do not believe Apple allows CPUs of that generation to run versions of OSX later than Maverick. There are software tricks to get around this that involve tricking the OS into identifying the machine differently to which users of older Mac Pros can resort that require modifying configuration files a la hackintosh. That information is readily available.There is also the issue of peripheral drivers most of which are written by Apple and not always updated with each iteration of OSX. Peripheral software from the peripheral vendor is also not always updated to run on subsequent iterations of OSX. What will be abandoned is a major consideration with every new version of OSX but has not been an issue in Windows since OEMs updated their drivers for the Vista model.If I were the OP I would either partition a part of an internal drive and install a newer version of OSX or install a newer version on a USB drive.

The latter will incur a significant speed penalty but is risk free. There is no harm to experiment with a newer version of the OS as it may turn out beneficial but it would be unwise to update the primary and stable ancient OSX installation without first seeing what happens with an updated version of OSX. Bmoag wrote:Snow Leopard was a first iteration product and while good for its time is very inefficient compared to subsequent iterations of the operating system code. Critics are right that to some extent 'bloatware' had dulled the increased efficiency of newer code but newer CPUs are so much faster than what the OP has that it hardly matters for the way 99% of OSX users actually work.I respectfully disagree. I run Mavericks as the basic OS on my 2011 i7 iMac, but also 10.6.8 and 10.12 (Sierra) as VMs in Parallels. In other words, all 3 are running in the same user account on the same Mac.

Snow Leopard is WAY faster than 10.9, while 10.12 is much slower. I believe that 10.7 (Lion) introduced a lot of feature bloat that slowed Macs down a lot.If it wasn't for browsers becoming more and more useless as sites phase out support for older versions, I might even still be using 10.6.8 myself. If you're content with the the other software you use, then that's the only real issue.

Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) was released today. To answer questions about compatibility, Adobe has create a and aSpecifically, the Photoshop and Lightroom teams have been testing our applications since Lion became available to developers. Our teams worked closely with Apple to address/fix issues that were discovered while testing Photoshop CS5. Photoshop CS5 Does not work with Lion in my experience and apparently many others. There are several patches out there like turning off the Font Preview in Photoshop preferences, that worked for a day. Then read about Java for lion, that didn’t help.

NowI’m trying to run a photography business with no Photoshop.I can open a raw image in raw dialog box and adjust it. Then once I click open the layers show up but the image is MIA. This is the case for PSD files as well. They appear to be open, the layers are there but the image is missing. Can’t close or edit, have to shut down PS, it’s the only option.Any ideas ANYONE??? Try this: Uninstall Photoshop and all its programs. Then restart your computer.

Then when it restarts, go to Disk Utility and do all the preference things. Like ‘Repair Preferences.’ Then immediately reinstall photoshop and all the stuff that comes with it.

Restart your computer again. When it restarts this time, do the Preferences thing again in Disk Utility just as before. As soon as it finishes, Quit Disk Utility and open Bridge. Hopefully it was just a preferences issue.

When I got CS5, for months I could only use a limited amount of Photoshop. NO OtHeR programs like bridge or anything else. Then I tried that, and FINALLY it all workedGood luck. I know how frustrating it all can be. It’s just a hell to be using any Creative Suite product (exert Flash Builder as it’s built on Eclipse) on Lion, most problematic is the how their user interfaces works with lion. One issue is that as soon as one of these products are running they cluster the Mission Central so is’s useless when using CS apps, as this isn’t enough the also tends to cluster other applications running in fullscreen which is just not a okey workflow.I would love to see CS integrated with front most the fullscreen API, and versions and autosave would not be wrong as CS apps always seams to crash when they are not supposed to. I finally switched over to a mac and got the new os x 10.7.2.

(YEA!)But, as I was transferring, I tried to instal lightroom 2 (which said it was compatible for mac and pc) it said it failed to install but gave no explanation. I’ve been on the phone with people in india (adobe help) and they didn’t really know.

And then another person in the states, and she said it didn’t really support lightroom 2 so I should just upgrade to lightroom 3. But that just doesn’t seem right.Is this really the way things are or should I just wait for adobe or mac to come out with something that will fix the problem?I agree that they shouldn’t make people pay for upgrades they don’t want just so their already purchased products will work.If there is no technical solution I suggest that Adobe give out free upgrades to people in this situation.It really isn’t ethical what they are doing even if it was unintentional. Photoshop more than anything is the app I’d like to see work with these new features of Lion, especially versioning and fullscreen. It is absolutely pathetic that Adobe can’t have support for these features near the date of Lion’s release. Its now 4 months later in fact, and still nothing. Not to mention, Apple provided developer previews of Lion a YEAR in advance. Your team shouldn’t be “investigating” the new features at its release, they should have been wrapping it up.

This is part of Steve Jobs’s problem with Flash, as things change with Apple’s OSes, Adobe has no ability to keep up, even if given a year. I believe in Steve’s address about Flash on iOS, he even mentioned that Cocoa had been out for 10 years, and Adobe had just released a Cocoa version of Photoshop around the time he wrote it. I know Photoshop is a large, extremely complex app, but its also an expensive, professional app that should have the resources in place to adapt with changes to the OSes it runs on.

Adobe should be ashamed. Who had a Cocoa/64bit version of a professional photo organizing software? (Hint: It wasn’t Apple.

Correct Answer: Adobe Lightroom)Who had a Cocoa/64bit version of a professional video editing suite? (Hint: It wasn’t Apple.

Correct Answer: Adobe Production Premium with Premiere Pro, After Effects – and Photoshop)So, to say that Photoshop team doesn’t care about the Mac platform – or can’t keep up – is pure FUD if Apple itself took longer to port their professional apps. It wasn’t a small task for anyone, including Apple itself, to port robust, feature rich, mature applications to Cocoa/64bit.I’m a Mac user and fan –. I was.Is Photoshop perfect? I’m one it’s biggest critics. But, I don’t agree with your assessment that I should be ashamed. I’m proud of my work on Photoshop.

I think you misunderstand what I meant, to some degree. I don’t think you should be ashamed of Photoshop as a whole, I think Photoshop is an amazing app and it’s by far one of my favorites. The cocoa thing was just an example, I’m sure its a big undertaking, whatever. Let’s not get too sidetracked by that. My main issue is that you guys aren’t able to get fairly simple features like going fullscreen out in any reasonable amount of time, you didn’t really address this in your response. Thank you, however, for your response.

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Again, thank you for the response. I also didn’t mean to say you or your team are lazy, but I think we’ve gotten to the heart of the issue with your latest response, it’s that Adobe intentionally holds back features until a major release.

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I mean, I understand that you can’t do anything about the company’s policy about when it gives out a new feature and of course your team deserves to be paid for their hard work. I guess personally I feel like some little (yes, this is in my opinion “little”) features along the way like going fullscreen would be a nice goodwill gesture to people who buy your $600 dollar apps. On the flip side, I totally understand if you guys do major things like rewrite it in 64bit, add 3D modeling, etc, that those are major features that deserve to be purchased.