#Amazon apple snow leopard install#

Since most users of PPC software did not even know they were operating under emulation, they did not discover this fact until their unfortunate upgrade to Lion or now Mountain Lion.Ģ. Unfortunately, Apple's license to this underlying technology expired with the introduction of Lion and thereafter. It was a minor miracle: customers could continue to run their software libraries (for the most part) and yet purchase new software that ran native in Intel. Rather than make its users replace all of their current PPC software, Apple licensed technology from a third party company that transparently emulated the PPC routines on the new Intel Macs Apple named it Rosetta. In 2005, Apple announced its migration in 2006 to the Intel platform. What is Rosetta? From the mid-1990's to 2006, Macs ran on the PowerPC CPU platform,which was a competitor to the Intel platform. You now want to run your copy of Microsoft Office 2004 and of course you are getting the dreaded cannot run powerpc applications prompt.ġ. You upgraded Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 online.

#Amazon apple snow leopard install#

You were able to accomplish this feat without having a permanent copy of the Snow Leopard Install DVD (borrowed perhaps?). Here is what I gleen from your posts: You have a MacBook that was running Tiger or Leopard and you upgraded it to Snow Leopard.

Your lack of specifics is confusing the heck out of the many valuable resources available to you here. I downloaded the upgrade from the internet, so I don't have a disk.