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Replacement for Rosetta in Lion?
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1267007" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Yes indeedy. If you do a "Get Info" on the drivers for your </p><p>various peripherals, you will probably find that several of them are </p><p>"PowerPC" and won't run under Lion. </p><p></p><p>Various peripheral manufacturers take varying amounts of time to </p><p>update the drivers for their hardware when a new major version of the </p><p>Mac OS is released. HP is especially infamous for taking a long time </p><p>to update drivers, and sometimes even orphaning some fairly recent </p><p>models of peripherals when Apple comes out with a major update to the </p><p>Mac OS. </p><p></p><p>You can expect the driver situation under Lion to be even worse than </p><p>with previous releases of the Mac OS, because this time many drivers </p><p>will have to be rewritten from scratch due to the absence of Rosetta </p><p>in Lion. </p><p></p><p>This is one of the many reasons that I always recommend that users </p><p>wait until at least the second update to a major release of the Mac OS </p><p>before upgrading. By the time the second update is released, all of </p><p>the major bugs should have been exorcised, and, hopefully, all </p><p>peripheral driver updates should be available.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1267007, member: 190607"] Yes indeedy. If you do a "Get Info" on the drivers for your various peripherals, you will probably find that several of them are "PowerPC" and won't run under Lion. Various peripheral manufacturers take varying amounts of time to update the drivers for their hardware when a new major version of the Mac OS is released. HP is especially infamous for taking a long time to update drivers, and sometimes even orphaning some fairly recent models of peripherals when Apple comes out with a major update to the Mac OS. You can expect the driver situation under Lion to be even worse than with previous releases of the Mac OS, because this time many drivers will have to be rewritten from scratch due to the absence of Rosetta in Lion. This is one of the many reasons that I always recommend that users wait until at least the second update to a major release of the Mac OS before upgrading. By the time the second update is released, all of the major bugs should have been exorcised, and, hopefully, all peripheral driver updates should be available. [/QUOTE]
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