On 11 Jun 2005, at 9:17 pm, Sherry Brown wrote:
Do you informed Mac geeks think that the new Intel CPUs will make a
new operating system necessary? One that will not let us run our OSX
programs?
Not sure that I'm an informed Mac geek, but...
Tiger runs on Intel already. About this time next year the first
Macintels will be released with Tiger preinstalled. They will run
*most* Mac OS X applications, either natively or via Rosetta.
Leopard (yech!), the next version of OS X, is expected some time in
2007, i.e. before the changeover is complete, so it will also have to
run on both architectures - otherwise there'll be hardly anybody to
sell it to. Assuming there's another release in 2009, I'd assume it
will also run on both PPC and Intel, since there'll still be a lot of
fairly new PPC Macs out there. It may not run everything that runs on
Tiger now, but that's not particularly a result of the CPU change.
There are always some apps that need updating after an OS revision, and
some that just get abandoned.
Apple does seem to be putting a lot of effort into making sure that
most current applications will run on the new machines.
Miche.
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