Sony/Apple dropping SxS compatibility

[Steve Connor]

Well you could buy a copy of Leopard off eBay and install that instead on your new machine.

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

Have you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.

[Tim Kolb]

…or pick up a clunky old PC and transfer on that.

(…which was my answer when Mac discontinued the P2 compatible PCMICA slots as well…)

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Craig Seeman]

Or simply buy JVC HM or Panasonic camera that supports SDHC.

Sure there are a score of workarounds. Sony has to service their customers or lose them. Heck you can simply bootcamp a MacBook Pro, run Snow Leopard and Windows XP and use as needed and with Parallels or Fusion, drag and drop after input.

My point (which may not be yours) is that Sony has and may still be mishandling this. They should have had a warning not to upgrade on their site. They should have a “reasonable” timeline like every other major and most other smaller developers have.

I have a score of programs I use and in every case there was a warning, a public beta, a release candidate, an update available for Snow Leopard. So fare Sony is the lone exception. Heck even Adobe talked publicly about the state of compatibility with CS3 and CS4.

Apple, in my opinion, did their best job yet in handling the update to Snow Leopard through its development and release. Even the change to Archive/Install and dumping the old “update” was a wise decision decreasing the risk of bad OS upgrades. Developers had the final build a few weeks back so they had ample time to either make change or warn customers if they weren’t ready.

[Andy Mees]

Here’s a weird one I’ve not seen before … we have a user for whom direct SxS reading is actually still working (although he does have the thumbnail cache issue).

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10111678#10111678

[Tim Kolb]

[Craig Seeman] “Sony has and may still be mishandling this. They should have had a warning not to upgrade on their site. They should have a “reasonable” timeline like every other major and most other smaller developers have.”

I can’t argue with that one…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Craig Seeman]

I can understand the drivers and other software updates not being ready. A simple statement to that effect on their site would have helped. This is especially so given the apparent “long” timeline Sony seems to have presented for their 10.6 compatible updates.