On 2014-03-25, 11:11 PM, TOM WALKER -> ALAN ZISMAN wrote:   
      
    AZ>> MS gets regularly blamed for the sorts of things that Apple does   
    TW> routinely -   
    AZ>> and with no blame. For instance, after 12 years, MS drops support for   
    TW> Window   
    AZ>> XP (released in 2002); during the same period, Apple switched processor   
    AZ>> architectures (from PowerPC to Intel) in 2006 and moved from  2002's   
    TW> OS X 10   
    AZ>> to 2013's 10.9 (7 generations of OS). The last OS X version with PPC   
    TW> support   
    AZ>> was OS X 10.5. OS X included support to run older applications   
    TW> developed for   
    AZ>> the PPC platform on Intel - but that was dropped in OS X 10.7. So the   
    TW> owner   
    AZ>> an Intel-powered Mac (all post-2006 Macs) running OS X 10.7 or later   
    TW> can not   
    AZ>> run any Mac application developed prior to 2006.   
      
    TW> My daughter is going to have to fight that battle in the next 6 months   
    TW> to year. She wants to replace her prior to 2006 Mac Book Pro with the   
    TW> latest model.   
    TW> ---   
   If it's a Macbook Pro then it's got an Intel processor (and is 2006 or later);   
   earlier Apple laptops were named Powerbooks (for the higher-end models) or   
   iBooks (for the consumer models).   
      
   However, she may be running older software (Microsoft Office 2004 for instance   
   or older versions of Quicken, among others) that were designed for pre-2006   
   PowerPC Macs but could still run on Intel models running Mac OS X up to   
   version 10.6; support for those older software versions was dropped with   
   version 10.7 and later (the current version is 10.9).   
      
   If she has questions or issues, she's welcome to drop me a line: alan (at)   
   zisman (dot) ca   
      
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