LiveJournal is broken, cannot post comment to friend's posting
Recently Hudebnik posted an open Mac question I can answer, but LJ will no let me reply with a comment.
LJ has steadily gotten buggier and buggier since being run from Russia - this is really annoying.
Hudebnik - Mac OS 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) was the last version to carry PowerPC emulator known as Rosetta. So all PowerPC apps stop working in both Lion (10.7) and Mountain Lion (10.8). My experience is that the two (Lion and Mt Lion) are functionally interchangeable - but that Exchange and iCloud function a little better in Mountain Lion. If you use neither - either OS is fine. If you use Exchange or iCloud - you'll enjoy Mt Lion more than Lion.
To see which Apps you have that are PowerPC only - do:
Apple Menu
About this Mac
System Report
Software/Applications
Sort by Kind by clicking the Kind header on the table
Note any App that is Classic or PowerPC - those will no longer work in Lion and Mountain Lion
For me this meant I had to finally replace or upgrade MS Office 2004 (easy - I like Pages/Numbers/Keynote and LibreOffice better anyway) and I had to replace Palm Desktop and my Palm Tungsten C; and Evernote on my iPhone fixed that.
Everything else I had that was PowerPC was a free upgrade to an Intel or Universal Binary version that works fine.
A bigger issue is if your Macs will be able to run Lion and Mountain Lion.
Thumb Rule: any Mac with a Core 2 Duo or newer and 2GB or more can run Lion.
Mountain Lion is a little pickier - wants 3GB or more; and seems to reject the first year of Core 2 Duo chips - but most Core 2 Duos are fine.
LJ has steadily gotten buggier and buggier since being run from Russia - this is really annoying.
Hudebnik - Mac OS 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) was the last version to carry PowerPC emulator known as Rosetta. So all PowerPC apps stop working in both Lion (10.7) and Mountain Lion (10.8). My experience is that the two (Lion and Mt Lion) are functionally interchangeable - but that Exchange and iCloud function a little better in Mountain Lion. If you use neither - either OS is fine. If you use Exchange or iCloud - you'll enjoy Mt Lion more than Lion.
To see which Apps you have that are PowerPC only - do:
Apple Menu
About this Mac
System Report
Software/Applications
Sort by Kind by clicking the Kind header on the table
Note any App that is Classic or PowerPC - those will no longer work in Lion and Mountain Lion
For me this meant I had to finally replace or upgrade MS Office 2004 (easy - I like Pages/Numbers/Keynote and LibreOffice better anyway) and I had to replace Palm Desktop and my Palm Tungsten C; and Evernote on my iPhone fixed that.
Everything else I had that was PowerPC was a free upgrade to an Intel or Universal Binary version that works fine.
A bigger issue is if your Macs will be able to run Lion and Mountain Lion.
Thumb Rule: any Mac with a Core 2 Duo or newer and 2GB or more can run Lion.
Mountain Lion is a little pickier - wants 3GB or more; and seems to reject the first year of Core 2 Duo chips - but most Core 2 Duos are fine.