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Old 03-18-2010, 01:22 AM   #1
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Old 03-18-2010, 07:21 AM   #3
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Old 03-18-2010, 07:49 AM   #4
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Old 03-18-2010, 07:54 AM   #5
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<Sigh> Intel Macs only. Can't run it on either my wife's iBook or my Powerbook G4. I'm getting happier by the day that I went with the Sony eReader instead of a Kindle.
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Old 03-18-2010, 09:57 AM   #7
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<Sigh> Intel Macs only. Can't run it on either my wife's iBook or my Powerbook G4. I'm getting happier by the day that I went with the Sony eReader instead of a Kindle.
If you had gone with the Kindle you'd still be able to use it with your non-Intel Mac. If you want to read Kindle books on your computer, it would be a problem but if you don't read on the computer, you don't really need Kindle for Mac.
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Old 03-18-2010, 09:58 AM   #8
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<Sigh> Intel Macs only. Can't run it on either my wife's iBook or my Powerbook G4. I'm getting happier by the day that I went with the Sony eReader instead of a Kindle.
I understand that you're disappointed, but Sony isn't exactly known for their stellar Mac support. In fact, Sony's lack of Mac support is one reason I ended up with a Kindle instead of a 505.
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Old 03-18-2010, 11:10 AM   #10
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I understand that you're disappointed, but Sony isn't exactly known for their stellar Mac support. In fact, Sony's lack of Mac support is one reason I ended up with a Kindle instead of a 505.
Actually, Sony's software does support G4 and G5 Macs, AND OS 10.4.
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Old 03-18-2010, 11:41 AM   #12
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Actually, Sony's software does support G4 and G5 Macs, AND OS 10.4.
It does now, but it certainly didn't when I was in the market to buy.
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It does now, but it certainly didn't when I was in the market to buy.
Same for me and it was a huge factor in my decision!
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Old 03-18-2010, 11:57 AM   #14
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Old 03-18-2010, 12:02 PM   #15
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I certainly wasn't trying to pick on crop/top, I just found his/her post ironic. Sony's lack of Mac support a few years ago completely crippled the Sony reader for Mac users - you couldn't even buy books from the Sony store. I know calibre allowed users to work around other limitations, but there was still no way to buy from the authorized store - that's a huge miss. I think lack of support for PPC, which Apple themselves has deprecated (Snow Leopard) is minor in comparison.
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