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I'm about to buy a MB Pro Aluminum 2.5Ghz Core 2 Duo 4GB 250GB 2008 pre-unibody.
I understand I will have to hook external drives to make it run smoothly. But my question is: Will Snow Leopard run my following software without having to upgrade? My stuff works sweet on my G5 and I'm not a fan of upgrading just because everyone says its better. I don't make a living at recording. In my world, this is plenty:

Dp 6
Machfive 2
MX4

I do understand these three WILL run on my machine under Leopard. But how about Snow Leopard? Or Lion, even? For now, I just plan on staying under Snow leopard. If I can't run these without a paid upgrade, I will stay in Leopard. Thoughts Please? Thanks so much for your input.
Cheers,
Meister

Meister

I run that computer with SL and never had any problems unless
they were caused by me. You should be fine.

Freaky

Make sure you can boot in 64 bit mode or you will be kicking yourself when DP 8 is out.

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Make sure you can boot in 64 bit mode or you will be kicking yourself when DP 8 is out.

Although, it will not be necessary to boot in 64 bit mode to run DP8 in 64-bit mode and have DP address over 4GB RAM. Check this out:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1142379 ... 4_bit.html

I know that. If the o/p wants to do any substantial work in MachFive and/or audio, he will want to be able to address more than. 4 GB.

What a fantastic community here. You folks have never let me down. Great article James! Thanks for that. Full of good juicy details. The MB Pro can't have more than 4gb of ram, right? So I guess the article is saying it doesn't matter if my machine doesn't boot in 64 bit mode. Am I missing something?

Cheers and thanks,
Meister

If that's the max RAM then you need not worry about 64 bit.

I would check OWC to see if 4G is the max amount of RAM you can run- Apple is not always correct on this.

Install Rosetta with 10.6 and most of your legacy apps will be fine. A few old plug ins will not run no matter what you do.

If you use QuickTime, make sure that you install 7.6.6 in your Utilities Folder. Do not uninstall QT-10 no matter how useless it is. If you have 7.7, trash it - won't work in SL. QT 7.6.6 installer is on the SL and Lion install disks and is a free download from Apple - the installer puts it in the Utilities folder where it belongs (conflicts with QT 10 in the Applications folder).

If you have problems opening your projects on the new machine, try this on your Projects folders first: Get Info / Assign Read & Write privileges / Check Apply to enclosed items. Depending on how you transfer your files, this may or may not be an issue. If you see a red dash on your projects folder, this is also how you fix that.

DP 6 should be updated to 6.03 (if you haven't already) to run properly over SL. It will even run fine over Lion if the OS is upgraded from 10.5 or 10.6. DP cannot be installed on 10.7 before 7.24, the current version.

OTOH, $195 gets you 7.24 now and 8 when it ships.