Operating Systems > macOS
Development Intel Macs outperform G5s
WMD:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1175
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/13/2057231&tid=174&tid=3
Let the flames commence! (not necessarily here ;) )
bedouin:
If the transition is as seamless as some people are claiming, I don' know that I have much of a problem with it.
I mean, I'm not looking to buy a new Mac for a another few years. If Rosetta is running PPC apps at 60-70% the native speed, they're still running faster than they would on my old machines, and my current machines run things quite comfortably.
My only fear is that some developers will stop making Mac and PC versions of their products, and instead just expect Mac users to run the Windows version in a virtual machine. That would suck.
WMD:
--- Quote ---My only fear is that some developers will stop making Mac and PC versions of their products, and instead just expect Mac users to run the Windows version in a virtual machine. That would suck.
--- End quote ---
That would be the OS/2 Syndrome, and it won't happen with Intel unless Apple supports a WINE-like thing for OS X. Which won't happen. And no software company would tell customers to buy and install Virtual PC and a copy of Windows.
bedouin:
--- Quote from: WMD ---. . . and it won't happen with Intel unless Apple supports a WINE-like thing for OS X. Which won't happen..
--- End quote ---
Apple isn't supporting it, but CodeWeavers is.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: WMD ---And no software company would tell customers to buy and install Virtual PC and a copy of Windows.
--- End quote ---
I wouldn't be so sure. The majority of them don't build for GNU/Linux, so they may as well be telling us to get Windows.
But then again this is Mac OS X...
[offtopic]Anyone know if Mac OS X has much more market share than GNU/Linux? I'd say it's getting tighter, and if the hoards are gonna go anywhere, I'd say more of them would go this direction.[/offtopic]
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version