Hi All!
Just picked up a few other side notes (the Intel thing kinda has
taken up a lot of bandwidth!):
- WebObjects 5.3 was announced, as part of XCode 2.1. Now free for
developers, but unsure of deployment.
- Steve showed off iTunes 4.9, with Podcasting.
- And some thing about OS X running on an Intel CPU....... :-)
I'd suggest to everyone to read through the blurb on Mactel. From
what I can gather, it is not all that different from the 68k to PPC
changeover. Programs will have two binaries, one for PPC and one for
Intel. Those that don't want to compile for Intel will under
Rosetta, a PPC emulation layer for Intel will allow those programs to
run (Steve showed this off with Photoshop, Quicken and Office).
And Apple are not discontinuing support for PPC in the near future!
I'm sure 10.5 will run on both PPC and Intel Macs, as the number of
PPC Macs will outweigh the Intel boxes for sometime yet.
And as far as new Macs are concerned, I'd bet the farm on their being
updates for all models for the next year with the PPC. Especially
the high end Powermacs, as there could be anywhere up to a 2 year (or
more) wait for these Intel boxes to ship. IBM aren't about to
completely drop development of the PPC. Granted, the updates won't
be like a 1Ghz or so, but the updates also incorporate other
technologies ie when PMs went from Quicksilver to MDD, the raw CPU
speed didn't increase that much, but the changes in the motherboard
architecture were enormous.
If you guys were let down by the last major change for Apple (OS 9 to
OS X), you wouldn't be reading this email :-)
Let the fun begin!
Seeya
Rod!
