MacDawg said:My concern is the other way around.
If I buy a Powerbook now, that runs all of my software, what happens a year from now when all of this cool stuff comes out for the Intel processors and won't run on my Powerbook?
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But there will almost certainly be apps that require something special that doesn't exist on the PPC chip itself, and only on the Intel one.Sharewaredemon said:I remember reading somewhere that software will be released with dual binaries for some years to come.
Counterfit said:But there will almost certainly be apps that require something special that doesn't exist on the PPC chip itself, and only on the Intel one.
Morn said:Steve Jobs was using MS Office just fine on the intel mac developer unit at WWDC. All powerpc software should work on a intel mac.... don't try and do anything CPU intensive with them though.
I don't expect to run games via Rosetta.mammajamma said:for some reason, I doubt that rosetta will run games very well. Don't take my word for it though, wait until January 10th.
The latest versions of Rosetta has Altivec. Rosetta should run every OSX app. Some might run too slow to use though... pro apps mostly.Anything that runs on a iBook G3 should run fine.
The x86 cannot support Altivec calls, so no G4/G5 software -- there are some hints that Apple may include a emulation layer for compatibility, but this may make the current versions of VPC look speedy.