Silverfast on Mac OS Lion?

[sebii]

Hey everyone,

Has anyone tried to use Silverfast on Mac OS Lion? I have read mixed reports on compatibility.

Cheers,
Seb

P.S. I realise I can just not upgrade/buy a pc :D

[HoodedOne]

I noticed yesterday, that the Silverfast Launcher didn't work. I haven't tried starting silverfast without the launcher. Maybe that would work.
The new silverfast is expected in August.

[Mackinaw]

According to "roaringapps.com" Silverfast 6.6 has been tested and does NOT work properly.

http://roaringapps.com/apps:table/tags/_s/index_tags/_s

The new Silverfast 8, to be released in August, will work with Lion.

Jim B.

[Mackinaw]

Two show-stoppers - no Lion! :(

I'm going to keep my 2010 Mac-Mini around, running 10.6, just so I can run Nikon Scan (which is an old PPC program) as well as Silverfast 6.6.

I do need a new laptop though, and will probably buy a new Macbook Air. That, of course, will come with Lion.

Jim B.

[Steve Ash]

Silverfast does not run under Lion. This is annoying as there was a misleading statement by Silverfast in March this year stating that Silverfast will support Lion and will be available for Lion without limits:

"SilverFast unterstützt Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Kiel, Germany, 2011-03-11 - LaserSoft Imaging kündigt Support für Apples neues Betriebssystem an. Die weltweit erfolgreichste Scanner-Software SilverFast wird für Mac OS X 10.7 uneingeschränkt zur Verfügung stehen.

Mit Version 10.7 (Lion) bringt Apple im Sommer 2011 eine aktualisierte Version des Betriebssystems Mac OS X heraus. SilverFast wird selbstverständlich mit allen gängigen Windows- und Mac OS X-Betriebssystemen kompatibel sein. Als Neuerung wird SilverFast eine native Unterstützung der von Apple eingesetzten Intel-Prozessoren bieten und garantiert so auch in Zukunft besonders schnelle und leistungsfähige Programmabläufe - gleichermaßen auf 32Bit- wie auf 64Bit-Rechnern. "

The latest announcement of Silverfast reveals that there will be an new version #8 available in August. I fear it will come wiht a huge price tag. That is why I canceled the installation of Lion and now prepare a bootable Leopard external drive to keep Silverfast alive.

Regards,
Steve

[sebii]

Thanks for your replies guys.

It's funny, the longer I use Apple gear the worse compatibility issues get. It should be the other way around. Too bad it's such a fantastic OS to use...