Macintosh HotSync

[#1]

I have been using an antique desktop Mac (OS 10.3.9) to sync my Palm TX with Entourage (2004) for my calendar, contacts, notes and tasks. (I use Thunderbird for email.) While I have a more recent OS on my laptop at the office, I have delayed upgrading my home computer because I dreaded tackling the compatability problem with my PDA.  (I had a terrible time with the Missing Sync before turning to Entourage, which is no longer available in the most recent version of Office.)

I am planning to buy a new computer, so will be dealing with the Lion OS. Is there any hope of getting the Lion and the TX to sync, or should I be planning to exchange my PDA for a paper organzer?

Post relates to: Palm TX

[#2]

Palm Desktop is a PowerPC application, and as such it will not run under MacOS 10.7. PowerPC applications are supported by OSes 10.5 (automatically) and 10.6 (after installing Rosetta, a translator which is supplied but not included in the standard system install). Lion has no support for PPC applications. Maybe some third party will write (or has written) a replacement for Rosetta, I haven't checked.

Missing Sync (with which I also spent a terrible time before reverting to Palm Desktop) is a Universal Binary application and it should run under OS 10.7.

I am sticking with OS 10.5, partly in order to have Palm Desktop running.

[#3]

I too am heavily invested in the marvelous Palm Desktop for Mac. In order to safegard my continuing access to it and my other PPC programs I bought one of the last iMac quad cores in stock at my local dealer with Snow Leopard installed, the following delivered stock of iMacs were only running Lion and would only be running Lion in the future. Apparently Apple has constructed its computers with Lion installed to be incapable of running an earlier OS. Thank goodness I was warned in time. 

Now I happily sync my Palm TX with my new iMac 27" Snow Leopard installed quadcore at a blinding speed. I hope too that someone will come up with a replacement for Rosetta so that all of us who own PPC programs will continue to have access to them. And I admit to carrying a grudge against Apple for not continuing to include Rosetta with Lion to give veteran users recourse to their older software. 

[#4]

I have a Tungsten E2 that I've been using for several years with Mac 10.4.  I, too, have years of information stored on my device, from a previous generation of devices.  My wife got me a MacBook Pro for Christmas, and the PowerPC software is not compatible, as you all know.  If anyone creates an acceptable software solution for the problem, I'd surely like to know!  For now my device will be a standalone mobile device.  I may be able to sync with my wife's computer running Leopard, but that's not the best solution.