QuarkXPress 10 System Requirements
New system requirements for version 10 were posted on Quark’s forum at http://forums.quark.com/t/21811.aspx. It states:
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QuarkXPress 10 will be officially supported under
Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and
Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit) and
Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
Times change… we all have to move on at some point… I bit the bullet a while ago with Mountain Lion and Windows 8.
And depending on whether next week a new OS will be introduced, Quark will make a comment on extending the list by one operating system.
;-)
Are those minimum requirements or will it still operate in Snow-Leopard 10.6? Probably too early to say I suppose.
If I can’t use it with 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, I will not upgrade. All of the Lions are pretty useless to me and I won’t be using them until I am forced to. I had Lion on here for a while and it really screwed up a lot of workflow. So announcing Quark 10 with no Snowy capability means I do not use or recommend Q10.
Simon: it’s always safest to assume that if your older operating system isn’t listed as supported by an application, there’s a good chance it will cause problems. That’s been the case in the past.
After being sluggish in updating my Mac for a while (had a nasty experience with Quark, fonts etc in early 2010) I find I’m now up to 10.8.4! Apart from a problem with Microsoft Entourage (and it was old anyway) all seems fine, everything seems faster… Even looking forward to Quark 10 – anyone know what is going to be in it that’s new?
Andy: As soon as Quark announces what’s new in 10, we’ll post it!
98% sure its going to be Cocoa native and 64-bit native!
Thanks for the response Jay.
Being a simple soul in these matters, I’ll wait and see if it’s really worth the effort before having to invest in new hardware to run Lion.. (or Mountain Lion… or Maverick… or Alcatraz… or what other bizarre offerings Apple decide to foist on us) and assign my trusty 2007 MacPro to the mac museum. (my monitor currently sits on a fossilised Mac IIx… you never know when it might come in handy.. after all it cost three times as much as a MacPro!!). I don’t trade up easy.
All this once I’ve resolved the Freehand/Lion issue… (another little nugget of joy!)