Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-27 Thread stephen barncard
"like Lion and Mountain Lion, Mavericks doesn’t cost a thing. " It costs a LOT if one can run 32 bit any more… more bricks on the shelf. Maybe Apple can shut up for a while now that they've forced everyone to 64 bit. It wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't tried to axe popular apps with completely n

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Re. my suggestion that it may be possible for older Macs to stay safe by upgrading to OS X 10.6: Looks like I had more faith in Apple than their decisions warrant, as they just knifed the baby, and 19% of Mac users along with it: Apple Retires Snow Leopard Support, Leaves 1 In 5 Macs In The

AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
I didn't asked Apple to sell me an upgrade for my MacBook. I just bought the standard white retail DVD "on my own risk" and was surprised by the failure. Afterwords I found several informations that it was a fact that my series of MacBook wasn't upgradable. It was just a matter of some month, which

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tiemo Hollmann wrote: Hi Matthias, thats what I did, and the installer of snow leopard told me, my hardware is out of date and incompatible. I'm sorry to hear that. Apple makes good computers, but their costs average about twice that of PCs. Good components and all that so I'm not making a

AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Matthias, thats what I did, and the installer of snow leopard told me, my hardware is out of date and incompatible. Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. Febr

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2014-02-26 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi Tiemo Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote > ...and I have to pay 500 bucks every year just that runrev doesn't shut > off my old > license. Yes it does seem unfair that you would have to keep paying just to access an older version of LC - maybe Heather could make an exception and change the licence type

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2014-02-26 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Richard, it is a standard MacBook (not pro) with a 2.2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo from beginning 2007 which was at least over here pretty popular for standard users. The search for updates doesn't offers me any updates anymore and a manual try to install 10.6 is refused by the installer because of "h

Re: AW: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tiemo Hollmann wrote: I haven't built for PowerPC in ages and no one has ever noticed. I vote to drop support for OS 10.5. Please continue to make LIvecode 6.5 and 6.6 commercial licenses avaialble who feel compelled to build for Mac PPC computers I don't know, why you set 10.5 == PPC. I don't

AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
And those Bulgarians with a good running MacBook from 2007 have the money to buy a new one??? Even in Germany most ones would hesitate for another couple of years to spend such a sum, if the old machine still runs. Tiemo > > Dropping support for Windows XP would be fairly foolish (while dropping

AW: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
v provides me a persistent license for 6.6. I would agree. Wonderful new world. My 2 euro cents Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von Mark Schonewille > Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Februar 2014 18:21 &g

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-25 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 25.02.2014 at 17:53 Uhr +0100 Tiemo Hollmann TB apparently wrote: Though I can follow the arguments for concentrating the efforts on new and faster platforms, I actually can't believe that only 3,8% of Mac users would be affected (if you count notebooks to desktops). I myself have beside my iM

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/02/14 18:53, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Though I can follow the arguments for concentrating the efforts on new and faster platforms, I actually can't believe that only 3,8% of Mac users would be affected (if you count notebooks to desktops). I myself have beside my iMac a MacBook from around

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
I completely agree with Tiemo's comments. This is a big issues for me. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RA

AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-25 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Though I can follow the arguments for concentrating the efforts on new and faster platforms, I actually can't believe that only 3,8% of Mac users would be affected (if you count notebooks to desktops). I myself have beside my iMac a MacBook from around 2007 which is not upgradebale on OS X 10.6 any