no more PowerPc?

[samsc]

i was kindof sceptical at first.

but having seen one of the developmental osx machines with a single pentium 4 3.6Ghz inside it running OSX.
Im almost convinced.


The pentium machine seems faster than even the dual 2.7Ghz G5, it seemed to run seemlesly and smoothly, running movies in the foreground and background.
Everything seemed to actually work including audio.

All the applications had been compiled for x86, all the system components, and it also ran opengl apps, and powerPC applications.

If developers have been writing portable or cross platform code, the changes to compile for x86 are minimal.
Its a much smaller than the change from OS9 to OSX - that was a big change.

I watched some developers boot the developmental pentium OSX machine from a windows cd and from fedora linux cd - in native x86 builds, and you kindof start to get the picture.....

[Jan Opseth]

How about Catalyst, is it much recompling for you to do?

i was kindof sceptical at first.

but having seen one of the developmental osx machines with a single pentium 4 3.6Ghz inside it running OSX.
Im almost convinced.


The pentium machine seems faster than even the dual 2.7Ghz G5, it seemed to run seemlesly and smoothly, running movies in the foreground and background.
Everything seemed to actually work including audio.

All the applications had been compiled for x86, all the system components, and it also ran opengl apps, and powerPC applications.

If developers have been writing portable or cross platform code, the changes to compile for x86 are minimal.
Its a much smaller than the change from OS9 to OSX - that was a big change.

I watched some developers boot the developmental pentium OSX machine from a windows cd and from fedora linux cd - in native x86 builds, and you kindof start to get the picture.....

[samsc]

reprogramming?

No. Not much.

QA issues and stability are more important and take longer than any reprogamming.

its a much easier transition than from 68k -> power pc or os9 -> osX

[samsc]

i also think that there is every possibility that we might see intel macs sooner than the middle of next year-

because once developers have got some basic glitches sorted out, the transition could be done a lot sooner.

os 10.4 basically already works on intel....apple's app's already seem to have been recompiled and they largely work.

i didnt see a single crash on the intel machines all week.