The "I'm only running native Apple Silicon apps" thread....

[SpitUK]

Who else wants to remain an AS purist and only run native apps written for the M chips? Can it be done yet for most computing tasks.

I have a base Air on order and I'm thinking I don't want to taint my machine with Rosetta 2 compiled code lol.

 

[yoak]

I’m lucky that I (almost) only rely on Apple apps. FCPX is my main app and that should run super smooth?

 

[acidfast7_redux]

Minesweeper. Great game. Underrated.

 

[dmccloud]

Who else wants to remain an AS purist and only run native apps written for the M chips? Can it be done yet for most computing tasks.

I have a base Air on order and I'm thinking I don't want to taint my machine with Rosetta 2 compiled code lol.

Personally, I will be running non-AS apps as needed. Limiting myself to AS-native apps only would have a significant impact on my daily workflow, and all indications are that Rosetta 2 handles converting apps much better than the original Rosetta, mainly because it recompiles the apps on installation instead of at runtime.

 

[acidfast7_redux]

Personally, I will be running non-AS apps as needed. Limiting myself to AS-native apps only would have a significant impact on my daily workflow, and all indications are that Rosetta 2 handles converting apps much better than the original Rosetta, mainly because it recompiles the apps on installation instead of at runtime.

This is true but I thought it was open the initial execution rather than the installation.

 

[petvas]

I think that at least for 6-12 months it will be extremely difficult to run only native apps. I have decided to wait for the high end Macs and I hope that until then most of my apps will be Universal. Currently I see an issue only with a couple of them, but as with every transition, the first months will be difficult.

 

[dmccloud]

This is true but I thought it was open the initial execution rather than the installation.

That was how the original Rosetta worked. Apple made mention of R2 recompiling on installation during the WWDC keynote.

 

[SpitUK]

I was hoping Spark would get an update.

 

[Squeak825]

That was how the original Rosetta worked. Apple made mention of R2 recompiling on installation during the WWDC keynote.

No, first launch.

 

[Henk van Ess]

I want M1 apps for​

• CorelDRAW
• CricketDraw
• CricketPaint
• Digital Darkroom
• FullPaint
• FullWrite Professional
• Gryphon Software Morph
• LightningPaint
• MacDraw
• MacPaint
• MacPerspective
• MiniCad
• QuarkXPress
• Ready,Set,Go!
• SuperPaint
• Typestry
• MultiFinder
• 4-Sight Fax
• AppleLink
• eWorld
• FreePPP
• Hotline Connect
• MacTerminal
• Red Ryder
• ZTerm

(well wasn’t that fun)

 

[Fomalhaut]

Personally, I will be running non-AS apps as needed. Limiting myself to AS-native apps only would have a significant impact on my daily workflow, and all indications are that Rosetta 2 handles converting apps much better than the original Rosetta, mainly because it recompiles the apps on installation instead of at runtime.

It translates them - it doesn't recompile, which requires having access to the source code. It's been said that it should run as well as an unoptimized compilation - i.e. not taking advantage of new features (might not use the efficiency cores), or compiler flags to make specific applications run better.

 

[yanksrock100]

I’ll definitely be open to switching my workflow to support developers that are supporting M1. However using Apple Silicon native apps entirely might be tough...

 

[SpitUK]

I am doing ok so far, running Office beta, PCalc, Magnet, Chrome, Pixalmator Pro, Fantastical, Parcel, Alfred 4 & Warcraft. Well done developers.

Just Spark running on Intel so far.

 

[AustinIllini]

I'm probably going to wind up using the Microsoft Office suite of products. Unfortunately, it looks like MS Teams isn't available at all.

 

[Internaut]

It translates them - it doesn't recompile, which requires having access to the source code. It's been said that it should run as well as an unoptimized compilation - i.e. not taking advantage of new features (might not use the efficiency cores), or compiler flags to make specific applications run better.

It does appear the translation takes place just the once, so compile is perhaps ok as an analogy here.

 

[lastcosmonaut]

Good news, the latest Chrome-dev and Firefox Nightly are Universal now.

 

[pshifrin]

The public release version of chrome is now available for AS. Actually I'm surprised by how much in 2 days is AS for me.

 

[Kaze9]

VS Code would be great. Looks like a few weeks for that. Might be my first rosetta install. I thought I was supposed to be prompted before installing rosetta but I downloaded the wrong version of DaVinci resolve because it said that the beta supported AS but I checked after it downloaded and it showed it as an intel software. It opened up without prompting me to download rosetta which is weird.