Photoshop running on Rosetta 2 with no slow down!!

[Kung gu]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1328495460810596353

Translation:
The Intel version of Photoshop is running on Rosetta.
It was said that the first startup was a little slow, but it wasn't!

If the browser and Photoshop work, it's OK as a blogger machine for the time being. You can use it right away!

On M1 MBA

 

[bill-p]

That sounds great. I'm hoping Capture One Pro will work without a hitch as well.

I know for sure Fusion 360 will work because Apple made it a point to demo specifically that app during the keynote. That was the moment I decided to pull the trigger.

If I have those 2 apps, that's good enough. Anything else would be icing on the cake. I'd guess the more simple apps like Visual Studio Code (no ARM version yet), etc... will also be fine.

 

[rafark]

Pretty sure most software besides the big players will be running on rosseta at least for the next half decade, so it needs to run smoothly.

 

[Kung gu]

thats why apple gave the MBA the M1, as its the cheapest macbook and gave the mac mini m1 so the more these sell, the more devs will be inclined to make native apps quicker

 

[thingstoponder]

Pretty sure most software besides the big players will be running on rosseta at least for the next half decade, so it needs to run smoothly.

Doubt it. Maybe abandoned software.

If these devs don’t bother supporting native code I hope no one gives them money, they don’t deserve it.

 

[rafark]

Doubt it. Maybe abandoned software.

If these devs don’t bother supporting native code I hope no one gives them money, they don’t deserve it.

The thing is, there’s A LOT of software out there. The big players like adobe, popular video editors, web browsers, etc will have it easier since these companies have big teams. Smaller software (including open source software) run by smaller teams (you’d be surprised how many -quality- apps are maintained by 1-2 people) will have it harder to maintain 3 versions (Intel OS X, AS OS 11 and maybe Windows). At least for the next 3-4 years developers cannot afford to stop maintaining apps designed for intel systems since most Mac users are and will be using intel Macs.

Apple expects to fully transition to Apple Silicon in the next 2 years I think? Then give it another 2-3 years to have the majority of Mac users on AS.

 

[deeddawg]

Pretty sure most software besides the big players will be running on rosseta at least for the next half decade, so it needs to run smoothly.

As I understand it, at the next recompile software can be running as a universal binary.

So the only reason for delay would be the developer needing time to thoroughly test their application as a universal binary. In my opinion if that takes more than a few months and it’s not a super complex application, it’s time to consider dropping that software vendor.

 

[thingstoponder]

It’s my understanding that the hardest apps to transition ARE things like Adobe and Microsoft and Davinci, which use a lot of custom frameworks and not as many native Apple frameworks. The fact these are all coming along nicely should be a good sign. A lot of apps I care about like Pixelmator, Affinity, Acorn, etc are already supported or coming. I’m not worried personally. There’s few software that is both already 64 bit and will be abandoned for Arm. A lot of the abandoned stuff was already cut off when they dropped 32-bit Intel code for better or worse.

Open source is also not a big concern for me. They already support Linux which is not some big money maker for them. Arm is a common platform and a lot of the work is already done for Arm Linux anyways.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

The thing is, there’s A LOT of software out there. The big players like adobe, popular video editors, web browsers, etc will have it easier since these companies have big teams. Smaller software (including open source software) run by smaller teams (you’d be surprised how many -quality- apps are maintained by 1-2 people) will have it harder to maintain 3 versions (Intel OS X, AS OS 11 and maybe Windows). At least for the next 3-4 years developers cannot afford to stop maintaining apps designed for intel systems since most Mac users are and will be using intel Macs.

Apple expects to fully transition to Apple Silicon in the next 2 years I think? Then give it another 2-3 years to have the majority of Mac users on AS.

Yup. Anyone that has their code running on Catalina is 90% of the way to running it on Big Sur. Anyone running on Big Sur is 95% of the way to a Universal Binary (if you’re on the App Store, 99.999% of the way there). If their code is running on Catalina but not on Big Sur as a Universal Binary by WWDC next year is because the developer doesn’t want the money and, if it’s a free app, because they are doing better things with their time and never plan to update it.