On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:14 AM, James Fraser wrote:
By "dual-boot," do you mean the new iBooks are supposed to have the
ability
to boot in both OS X and Windows? Or is this wishful thinking on
your part?
I just wanted to clarify. [wrings hands]
Here's a quote from Phill Schiller at the announcement at WWDC last
year:
"After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller
addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no
plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't
preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he
said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run
Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow
running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said. "
Most of these questions were answered pretty authoritatively at the
time of last year's announcement.
Apple has a transition document in their developer section that has
significant details about things like Rosetta:
Basically, a straight Cocoa program with only moderate computational
issues will run at up to 80% of the speed of a native PPC program.
Note: Dreamweaver is NOT computationally intensive(really! It's more
of a fancy word processor).
Photoshop is computationally intensive and will definitely suffer
under Rosetta, with the caveat that the new Intel systems will
probably run faster than the extant G4's, mitigating the issue somewhat.
Rosetta is more like the old 68K Emulator in OS 8 than it is like
Virtual PC.
Also, everyone worrying about their towers, note that the G5 Macs
will likely be the very last systems switched over, sometime in 2007.
The greatest gains Apple stands to make from the introduction of
Intel -based Macs are in the Mini, iBook and Powerbook lines., and
that's why those are targeted first.
These are also the systems most likely to run less computationally
intensive programs or programs most likely to be ported quickly.
Also, note that any reports of compatibility Windows or otherwise
will need to wait until we actually have the real hardware: the
development systems currently in the hands of developers are nothing
more than lashed-up regular PC's designed to get functional systems
in the hands of developers, and bear little relationship to the
actual product Apple's going to ship.
This includes whatever measures are in place to prevent OS X from
running on generic Intel hardware.
As for Windows, Apple doesn't care they've sold you the computer. MS
doesn't care, they've sold you the Windows. No one's likely to
prevent Windows from running on a Mac.
The downside of that is that some developers may just say: "dual boot
to use our product". Projects like WINE <http://
darwine.opendarwin.org/> may help that, too, by allowing Windows
programs to run under OS X, not as part of a dual boot system, but
this doesn't work for all Windows programs.
But we're still going to be fighting and nagging developers to make
Mac versions of their software.
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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