Reports indicate that Apple is now offering MobileMe users free upgrades to Snow Leopard to help them transition to iCloud before the June 30 deadline. MobileMe users who are still using Leopard have been getting notices of the free offer. Previously $30, the Snow Leopard upgrade would give these users the Mac App Store, which is required to then purchase Lion, which is in turn required to get a free iCloud account. MobileMe is schedule to shut down on June 30.
For users of older Macs, there is no upgrade path. Both Snow Leopard and Lion require Intel processors. The transition from PowerPC to Intel processors began and was completed in 2006, making all PowerPC Macs at least 5 years old. However, some of the earliest Intel Macs do not support Lion as it requires at least an Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
Apple Pushing MobileMe Users Toward iCloud
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I'm currently running OS X 10.6.8 and will not be upgrading to Lion. MobileMe allowed me to upload large modeling files so I could share with my customers. After discovering that iCloud will not allow me to upload these types of files there is no reason to upgrade to Lion. I'm now using Dropbox and it works great. Question is, will I be able to keep my @me.com address and use Apple Mail as before?
Good question. Probably. You WILL have to upgrade the account to iCloud (MobileMe won't exist). But you won't be able to access iCloud services without Lion. So you might have to use the iCloud web site to get your email then -- though it may still be possible to set it up through Mail. No way for me to know as a Lion/iCloud user.
Seems like it could be a reason enough to upgrade to Lion, along with all of the other new features and things you get in Lion.
There may be or probably will be a hundred reasons to upgrade to Lion, Duck, Frog, Ant and what have you. But for me there is only ONE (repeat: ONE) reason NOT to upgrade: the new OS will not allow me to use my all time beloved software programme FreeHand. Enough said - After 20 years I'm finished with Apple Macintosh. I made a living out of FreeHand - Apple and the owner of "Macromedia FreeHand", bl**dy Adobe, make it impossible to do my work. ANGRY, ANGRY, ANGRY.
Hans, this is very unfortunate for you but you are blaming the wrong guys. The developers of FreeHand are sitting on their ass. Kick them not Apple. And...I don't know if there is a windows version for FreeHand..if so have it run on your Mac.
Freehand was discontinued after its last update in 2004 (for both Mac and Windows). I agree with tampaappleman that your anger is misplaced. Macromedia was bought by Adobe which makes Illustrator and so didn't need two different programs that did the same thing. So they went with Illustrator (the bigger one). But that was 8 years ago.
I don't understand what you think should have happened instead. Should Adobe have kept two vector graphics programs because some felt one or the other was a "favorite?" Should Apple be holding back their hardware and software for their millions of users so some people can use 8-year-old software?
I still think I have a valid point - IF Apple had not removed Rosetta from the OS thousands of dedicated users could STILL have used FreeHand (by far the best ever software to make maps!) and other PPC software. Rosetta was available in 10.6.x but not any more in 10.7.x. That was NOT a decision by Adobe (d*mn them...*) but a decision by Apple.
(*) Adobe refuses any cooperation with a huge group of Freehand users, who are willing to pay to modernise the software IF ONLY Adobe would make the "now worthless" source code of this "obsolete and discontinued" software available.
I can't find any details of this on the Apple website. I am one of theses users with a mobile me account and an intel based mac on OX software. Could you tell me were to look for this software
Supposedly you should get an email. But try logging in to the MobileMe site (not the Apple site). I can't look as of course I have upgraded to iCloud a long time ago.
I did as you suggested and went through the MobileMe ichat support they checked the computer to see if it was lion compatible then sent me a secure link to enable me to receive the snow leopard via the post. I suggest other readers go this route its worked for me. Thanks for the info Keep up the good work
I have already set up my iCloud account and it works great,i have never had MobileMe because it was too expensive,but i did use Find My iPhone
If apple has ever failed miserably, it was with MobileMe. Awkward at best. The free transition to iCloud has been the most confusing process ever! No one at our local Apple dealer or last year at the Apple store was able to explain clearly what iCloud would do. It took a 2+ hour chat with Apple Online to fully understand the various Apple ID's...old/present MobileMe...new iCloud accounts and passwords.
iCloud is not a storage site (music & photos)...however, it does store iWorks files, Mail (johnny-come-lately...I still use Yahoo), contacts and memos. So it DOES some store files. And yes, it does synch this content with all "devices" ...and that may be its greatest value.
My fear is that as Apple has come to be the highest valued corporation in the world...vs that delightful wannabee we all came to love and cherish, it will lose its soul and heart.
Committed Mac users since 1984 with our first Mac 128..through an agency with 15 Macs...until now with an Air, a Pro and a G5...we just bought a Kindle Fire. Why do I feel sad?
When I upgraded to Lion my NVidia drivers were far worse then they were in Snow Leopard. Games like MW1, MW2, and MW3 would have graphical glitches. Such as floating trees, humans with no arms, and so on, while running under a utility called Wineskin. All the features were awful, and useless, too. Such as launch pad. You cannot organize it well – due to the lack of selecting applications and moving them around all at once. Also, inverted scrolling? What is this, an iPad? Macs are becoming worse and worse, now Apple is forcing people to upgrade. Great job.
To upgrade to Lion...I would lose the use of my Final Cut Express; I understand Final Cut Pro to be too advanced for what I do, as stated by an apple sales personal. Reviewing it..I agreed he was spot on. I also will lose the ability to use my digital camera software as well as my wacom tablet, which is an older version. :( Such a money grab every time they change things over. I have lost other purchased software in the past and had to seek alternate means.. Some I found was impossible to do so. It's unfortunate that Apples goal seems to be directed as an enforcement towards mac users to connect to all other kinds of devices for which I don't care to have take up my valuable time. It would be nice to see that the developers would take into consideration the people that have made them what they are, rather then the money aspect of their business and grasping in all directions to take it to the bank. The iPad has proven to do little or nothing concerning my artistic aspects. Rather elementary for the most part. The lack of room to move as extensively due to limited space is a turn off..not only to me but to others I know whom have stated the same. Great for those who like new passing gimmicks I suspect. Looking back on the waste of funds for the constant overhauls.. I just have to shake my head while watching my PC friend users slide by without such costs. At anyrate.. Lion again will mess up so many things as well as the removal of Mobile-me and Mobile-me's feature of iDisk to make way for the new iCloud. I have enjoyed the option and means to up load files to friends and have to do so via other avenues. All my accounts online will have to be given a new email contact address which is annoying as well since I refuse to be forced to reduce myself to the social connect to everything and anything for the sake of stats and at the expense of privacy etc to do that. My one and only credit card online was hacked into via mobile-me when it no longer was at cost but rather a free account..not to mention the stream of spam I received when apple stopped blocking it via that free option granted to make way towards iCloud. I won't apologize and say I didn't mean to have a bitch fest here.. I am rather disgruntled and am finding I am choosing to do so many other things in 'Real Life' rather then give way to being a victim to a web that snarls around and weaves it's web until it feels like it is choking me to death. Thanks for taking the fun out of it and catering to all the gadget seeking young folk who become bored to keep you all chancing after that carrot dangling in front of your noses. When the stress of all that gets too much and one by one some find they hit a wall.. I hope you stop awhile to take a look up and see the trees against the bright blue sky. It may finally dawn on you what is really important. I am finding it's a pretty darn good world without being glued to the computer, so really I should simply say thank you... At least until we are all forced to do everything and anything on line and then that nasty 'buried feeling' will be looming over me. Yes..it's felt good to bitch and to let go of 'sad'. Moving on has proved to be beneficial.. if that helps any of the others who may feel the same. Getting all the notices from all the so-called social networks stating I haven't been on board (as if I didn't know that) to see what all my other connects are doing minute by minute.. Geez.. Is it really all that important to see so and so and so and so doing nothing but yapping about this and that which soon passes away as unimportant, except for those moments and to only them for the most part??
First, I've never heard that Final Cut Express doesn't work in Lion. The final version of FCPE I'm sure does as I see people with Lion posting comments and techniques online.
I found FCPE to be a complex mess. I find Final Cut Pro to be much much easier to use. More powerful? Sure. But if it is easier to use then why not use it? And it is cheaper than FCPE ever was.
I called Apple Care for other reasons and when discussing my Final Cut Express.. The Apple rep told me it would no longer be able to work with Lion. He said to try looking thru the apps store to see if I could find something compatible. I was really bummed about it so I am seeking to see if I can find another online mail service to forward all my social email sites to. I would miss valuable emails if all the social stuff were to come onto my computer. I understand with iCloud..that will be the case and I feel that leaves some vulnerable. i.e MobileMe contacted me to tell me that I no longer had to pay for MobileMe account and that they were granting me a free year for the service. I was grateful until I began to get spam that they filtered out for me. (until I figured out how to stop it) and my mobileMe account was hacked into for the one and only credit card that I have ever had online. I also had someone attempt to clone MobileMe and then proceeded to tell me my update was to be a specific month and was due when I knew it was the wrong month and also on the heels of MobileMe granting me the free service. They asked for private info that Mac never asks for so I saw the red flag but if I didn't know better..The clone job was so precise that, hadn't I taken the time to really read it.. I could have been fooled. I did notify Apple care and provided a snap of what was sent to me. Back to Final Cut Express.. The Apple Rep said only the pro version would be available with Lion. It is far too advanced for what I need it for. :(
So the new app, "Final Cut Pro X," is the one available now. It replaces both Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express, and us cheaper than either ever was. And it is my opinion that is is easier to use than either as well. So as far as it being "far too advanced" -- it may be, but it may also be easier to use.
And if you are looking for an easy-to-use video editor, then why not use iMovie?
Also..The constant problem of having to continually purchase new or updates comes too close together, although Final Cut Express will not have an update. When I initially purchased the larger computer.. It was an Apple Rep who suggested I purchase the Express version over the Pro after he asked me what I was going to use it for..
I do use iMovie but there are some things that Final Cut Express can do without getting hung up I have found, for whatever reason. I can combine the two and then save it so I can view in Quicktime and upload to the net whereas iMovie only lets me view it via that software. There may be a way of correcting that but I haven't discovered it. Quicktime makes it web compatible for all and Final Cut Express gears to that. As far as spending more and more money to keep at the pace the web is going is draining my pocketbook far too often. My PC friends laugh at me all the time.
Not sure what you are saying here. You can create videos in iMovie and people can view them online. Of course you can.