List of Big Sur silicon universal apps

[proalorrs]

Hey guys,
can't wait to have my new MacBook Pro. I am very looking forward to the native apps for silicon - do you know if there is a list out there where I can see what runs native and what is "emulated"

Thx and best

 

[Howard Ellacott]

If you want to see your own apps, open system report and under applications you can see which apps are Apple Silicon, Intel or Universal!

 

[proalorrs]

thanks a lot - I did not know that. So from now I cannot see which apps will be silicon "only" and which what apps I need to wait for a native silicon app

 

[Howard Ellacott]

thanks a lot - I did not know that. So from now I cannot see which apps will be silicon "only" and which what apps I need to wait for a native silicon app

Silicon only apps have their own label. Universal apps are native for Apple Silicon, but they also have the code to run on Intel.

 

[James_C]

Just to be clear - Universal Apps contain code to run Native on both Intel and Apple Silicon processors, so Universal is effectively a native App. Most developers will be releasing Universal Apps for some time (years) so that they can run on both types of processor.

 

[IowaLynn]

Universal apps have to do some compile/optomizimg the first they launch. Office was suppose to be ready. Parallels is working on a Windows VM. In past there was a we site with compatibility of most all apps and what version, also on MacIntouch, though have not seen one there.

 

[dsemf]

Universal apps have to do some compile/optomizimg the first they launch. Office was suppose to be ready. Parallels is working on a Windows VM. In past there was a we site with compatibility of most all apps and what version, also on MacIntouch, though have not seen one there.

Universal apps have both a i386-64 and a AS binary in one file. That is why Big Sur is 12GB. i386-64 only apps require the Rosetta pre-process on first launch.

DS