On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 11:51 +0800, Neil Houghton wrote: > Read an article on NASA's Worldwind > <http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/> > - it sounded great until I visited the site to find: > > > System Requirements > > > > * Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, or XP > > * Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher > > * 256 MB of RAM > > * 3D Graphics Card > > * nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra > > * ATI Radeon 7500 > > * Intel Extreme Graphics 2 > > > > > > * DSL / Cable connection or faster > > * 2 GB of disk space > > > Will Apple moving to Intel do away with this discrimination
No*. > or will we still > have to use Windows PC to access things like this (and the DLI Skyview WA > and the Commsec Advanced Trading Program, and, and ....) Yes you will*. * Unless the move to x86 encourages improvements to tools like WINE etc to the point where you can transparently run Windows programs much of the time. This is a big maybe. The problem is, and will continue to be, the Mac OS X API. The CPU architecture doesn't matter much. The problem isn't getting the program for PowerPC, it's getting a Mac OS X port of the program. This will not change, though porting might get easier if tools like WineLib are improved. -- Craig Ringer
