Sibelius 6 CAN run on a steam-powered laptop!

Yes my friends, it's true. Sibelius 6 can run on a steam-powered laptop. (Definition of a steam-powered laptop: iBook G4 with Mac OS X Version 10.4.11, a 1.33 GHz processor and 1.25 GB memory. I believe the newest MacBooks have a 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2 GB of memory. Oh, and my computer speakers are blown, but that's another story.)

This is where I start weeping: I didn't know my computer was steam-powered until two days ago when my much-anticipated arrival of Sibelius 6 finally arrived in the mail. I eagerly slid the DVD-ROM into my laptop.

And then it spit it out. Rejected it.

Okay, fine. Try again. Same thing.

After figuring out that there was nothing wrong with my drive, I decided to call tech support the next day. (Actually I called the same evening, but tech support can't help you when they're closed.)

I called tech support the next morning while tweeting that the notation gods mock me. They asked what version OS I had, how much memory I had, etc. They said they wou…