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Apple goes Intel. Why?

[coldharbour]

Just as we couldn't run OS9 music apps under Classic in OSX, we won't be able to run OSX PPC music apps under Rosetta in OSXwintel. We will have to upgrade again, and wait for softdevs to make "Rosetta-carbonized" versions.

It's not Rosetta, it's Universal Binaries that'll be the answer. It's not a matter of "carbonizing", it's just a matter of recompiling.

Recompiling is not a major task but I'm sure some discontinued software and legacy products will not end up running on x86. I don't see that as a big problem. That happened with OS9 -> OSX transition as well and we've survived.

But I agree, it causes a bit of stress. If I buy a new x86 Mac I don't want to pay Apple anything extra to get my Logic Pro 7 running on it. And it won't run on Rosetta, I want the recompiled and optimized version and I want it for free. And I don't want to hear about 3rd party plug-ins not working or not being compiled.

We'll see how it goes. But looking at the big picture, I think moving on to Intel was a great strategic move from Apple.

A side note on rosetta, the emulator of PPC code to run on x86 (from Apple developer documentation)

Is it possible to get a straight URL to that document?

I have a G5, and I'm looking forward to many years of good service out of it. That's one of the reasons I bought a Mac. It does me proud now, and I can't see what will stop it working when the new INTEL based ones come out.

It doesn't stop working, but you'll just have to hope that all the software you need is being released as universal binaries for years to come - not only compiled for x86 architecture. Steve Jobs or anybody can not guarrantee that.

Ce message a été modifié par coldharbour - mar. 7 juin 2005, 13:11.