An anonymous developer speaks about the Developer Kit MacIntels (N.B.
-- these are developer models only, shipping MacIntels will not use the
P4):
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
First, the thing is fast. Native apps readily beat a single 2.7 G5,
and sometimes beat duals. Really.
[...]
They run Windows fine. All the chipset is standard Intel stuff, so you
can download drivers and run XP on the box.
[...]
Rosetta is amazing. (see earlier post on limitations of the Rosetta
emulator - it's a G3 emulator basically - will not run Altivec code,
etc. and performance isn't going to be as good as native code, but
most Mac apps will run on a G3.-Mike) The tests I've run, both app
tests and benchmarks, peg it at between a dual 800 MHz G4 and and a
dual 2 G5 depending on what you are doing.
(I mentioned to him the limitations of Rosetta (posted below)-Mike)
It's true Rosetta does not support Altivec, but most apps run on a
G3, right? Rosetta tells PPC apps that it is a G3. Apps should fall
back to their G3 code tree. Everyone I tested did.
The UI tests in Xbench exceed a dual 2.7 by a large margin. (other
specific tests are much lower than a G5 per Xbench site results.-Mike)
I've been talking to and watching a lot of devs. There are a lot of
apps from big names running in the Compatibility lab already. Some
people face more pain, sure, but Jobs wasn't kidding when he said that
this transition would be less painful than OS 9 to OS X or 68K to PPC.
[...]
Also, all the cell people and the AMD people need to be quiet. Apple
evaluated both. AMD has the same, if not worse, supply problems as
IBM. Their roadmap is fine, but the production capacity is not.
No word yet from anyone about MIDI issues, AFAIK.
- Darcy
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