(N.B. -- these are developer models only, shipping MacIntels will
not use the P4):
Yup...I think this is true...I think the Pentium 4 and most probably
Pentium M are for Beta purposes only...the M may show up in early
MacIntel boxes but ultimately there will be better/faster chips that
are currently in development used in the Apple boxes. Again,
speculation on my part...
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
First, the thing is fast. Native apps readily beat a single 2.7 G5,
and sometimes beat duals. Really.
See...this is the beauty of the Mac OSX operating system...put the
Mac OS on a " slower" machine/chip and it will run faster than
Windows on that same machine/chip....put it on a faster Intel chip
and it will scream compared to windows!
[...]
They run Windows fine. All the chipset is standard Intel stuff, so
you can download drivers and run XP on the box.
I'm not sure how this will play out...does Apple allow windows to run
natively on their boxes or do they close the loopholes and allow only
OS X (or whatever the next gen of the OS turns out to be) to run on
the new boxes even though they are using Intel chips...I'm currently
running Virtual PC on my laptop...I'm wondering how it would be if I
could just partition and then run both OS's natively on one box.
Again, this could totally change the market share game...what do you
guys think?? I'm curious to hear how my fellow Finale listers look
at this... I'm not clear on how this could play out...
[...]
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.
Jobs is a genius...the developers that have rested on laurels and
haven't kept up will lose out...those that have kept up will inherit
market share....listen up Coda! Finale will do more than any other
notation program out there...I hope the developers will step up for
all our sakes!
[...]
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.
AMD is out of the picture IMHO at least as far as processor chips go.
My hunch is that Apple had to make a deal with Intel that excluded
AMD to a huge degree to get them to create something proprietary for
Apple.
No word yet from anyone about MIDI issues, AFAIK.
Midi is a small part of this...I don't think it will be a problem.
They have had the OMS develeper(s) on board for a long time...it is
covered.... again IMHO.
Thank you for this Darcy....very informative!
Best,
K
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