Re: MCL on latest Mac Mini

Many thanks all.

I got the impression (some from Apple store) that the newest Mac 
Minis (some at least) had new firmware that might (they said would) 
prevent back-grading to Snow Leopard. The Mac Minis are Core i5 and 
i7 CPU while the Mac Pro is Xeon Nehalem or Westmere and so might be 
a different matter.

Running a quad-core i7 with one 2GHz thread used by MCL under Rosetta 
and VMWare Fusion could make a port to CCL on 8 parallel threads 
tempting.

But for now I just need to run some MCL code as is on a Mac Mini. And 
a trial run with a 2.7GHz dual-core i7 with VMWare and SL might prove 
the viability.  Anyone done or know if this has been done (and run 
MCL) already?


At 8:32 PM -0500 12/1/14, Andrew Shalit wrote:
>I don't know about downgrading, but it is definitely possible to run 
>Snow Leopard inside a VMWare Fusion virtual machine running on Lion. 
>That Snow Leopard can then run Rosetta, and presumably MCL.
>
>Depending on the version of Fusion you have, you may or may not need 
>to trick it into thinking that you have Snow Leopard (or Lion?) 
>Server.  That's easily done, though.  Apparently all you need to do 
>is create a file with a certain name in a certain location. 
>Google/Bing is your friend in finding the details.
>
>
>
>
>On Jan 14, 2012, at 5:32 PM, peter wrote:
>
>>  Can MCL run on a current i5 Mac Mini that's been back-graded to 
>>Snow Leopard?
>>
>>  The Apple Store folks are a little ambiguous about whether a 
>>backgrade from Lion to SL is possible after a recent firmware 
>>upgrade.
>>
>>  Any insights on this would be appreciated asap.
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