On 8/11/06, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now that Macs are Intel based (duel 3 GH processors)... I wonder if Partition Magic will now support the Mac file system? Partition Magic, along with Boot Magic, is what I use to support multiple OSs on my PCs.
The main problem with this is that HFS+ is closed source and the only way to support it would be to work with Apple in that way, which is not impossible. If you want to resize partitions on an Intel Mac, use bootcamp. If you want to access (R/W) files on a HFS+ filesystem under Windows, use MacDrive from MediaFour. Linux does support reading files from a HFS or HFS+ filesystem, but writing is dangerous or unsupported - don't remember. Anyway, a report I saw on TV yesterday, said that all Mac code has been
recompiled for Intel.
Mac use "universal" binaries technology, which contains both code for PPC and Intel chips. You can cross-compile code for both platform using a PPC or an Intel Mac. Works beautifully with XCode, the Mac development platform. The only downside is that you get bigger executables. Both versions runs natively on both platform as the OS choose which binary to launch. No emulation required. Mac OS X has been developed to support both PPC and Intel for a few years. There is an emulation product on the Mac, that
will allow old Mac code to run on the Intel processors (with a performance hit, of course).
This is Rosetta. It is included in every Intel Mac. It works for almost every Mac program. And the new dual 3 Gh boxes are soo much
faster than the G5 (what ever that means).
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