Hey all,
Wow, that's a shocker. It's been rumored for so long, but I never
thought it would actually happen. It's too bad, as I really like the
technology behind the G5, but IBM just haven't been able to follow
through on what initially seemed like a promising processor design. I
don't think Apple had much choice, though -- G5's were supposed to hit
3 GHz a year ago and they are still stalled at 2.7.
I just got through watching the WWDC Keynote. According to Steve, the
transition to native Intel builds will be trivial for Cocoa apps ("a
matter of days"), somewhat more complicated for Carbon apps made with
Xcode ("weeks"), and flat-out impossible for Carbon apps made with
Metroworks -- these apps must be moved to Xcode first. I gather that's
not something you do overnight.
I strongly suspect Finale OS X is still made with Metroworks, but
perhaps someone from Coda would like to chime in? [Given the complete
fiasco of Coda's initial move to OS X, a little more transparency and
honesty -- not to mention timeliness -- from Coda this time around
would be most welcome.]
PowerPC apps that have not been recompiled for Intel will run in an
emulation layer on Mactels [sigh, not AGAIN] -- called, in this case,
"Rosetta". Steve has assured us that it's "nothing like Classic" and
will be "completely invisible to the user" and "fast (enough)," but
honestly, who knows whether MIDI will even work under Rosetta?
In the long run, I suspect that this, like the move to OS X, will be
good for Apple. In fact, it's probably essential to its viability as a
computer maker. In the short run, I think we can only really be
certain of one thing: that the transition to Intel Macs won't be
anywhere near as seamless as Steve's keynote speech made it look.
- Darcy
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On 06 Jun 2005, at 2:28 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Of course since Steve Jobs ran his whole presentation on an OS X Intel
box, and ran iPhoto, Safari, etc, etc, plus Adobe and other
apps.........
They are going to do the Fat binary thing again. I don't think it will
be a problem as long as developers have been using the right tools.
Hello Codamusic!!!
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Simon Troup / 2005/06/06 / 01:57 PM wrote:
Hot off the press, Steve Jobs just announced officially that Apple
are
dropping IBM in favour of Intel chips.
Yup. it's here:
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html>
But I really doubt Mac OSX is going to run on x86, not to mention bite
order differences besides RISC/CISC differences.
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