Yes, It IS Exciting!
Just had a chance to watch the stream of the 2005 WWDC keynote... and now I'm definitely excited about Apple's switch from PowerPC to the x86!
Mr. Jobs did a fantastic job explaining the "why," "when," and "how" of the transition. The result is that I'm genuinely excited as both a Mac developer and as a Mac user.
As a developer, I'm excited because it looks like it will be dead-simple to support both PowerPC- and x86-based Macs. The story of how Mathematica was ported in just 2 hours (from a dead start, without the programmer even knowing why he was being flown to Apple last Thursday!) was a powerful testament to just how much work Apple has put into this already.
The demo of Microsoft Office for Mac and Photoshop CS (both PowerPC versions), running on an Intel-based Mac via the Rosetta-translation tech, was another eye-opener.
As a user, the exciting part was watching the x86-based Mac that Mr. Jobs was using chew through all of the different demos. All the eye-candy (the Dashboard ripple, for example) was there, and all of the apps (iTunes, Spotlight, Photoshop, etc.) seemed to perform flawlessly.
It was also exciting to realize that I won't have to re-purchase all of my current applications again. I use a lot of the iApps, with the balance of my time spent in DreamWeaver (which will probably be replaced by GoLive!, which Adobe has promised to port to the x86 version of OS X) and Microsoft Office, which was shown to work on x86 Mac OS X today.
Best of all it was all done with a single 3.6GHz (I think) Pentium 4. Not a dual-core machine, just a single Pentium 4. Not too shabby.
But, just imagine... a 3GHz, Dual-Core, 17-inch PowerBook!
It's not just a dream anymore!
Hey! This will be fun!
Diz
Mr. Jobs did a fantastic job explaining the "why," "when," and "how" of the transition. The result is that I'm genuinely excited as both a Mac developer and as a Mac user.
As a developer, I'm excited because it looks like it will be dead-simple to support both PowerPC- and x86-based Macs. The story of how Mathematica was ported in just 2 hours (from a dead start, without the programmer even knowing why he was being flown to Apple last Thursday!) was a powerful testament to just how much work Apple has put into this already.
The demo of Microsoft Office for Mac and Photoshop CS (both PowerPC versions), running on an Intel-based Mac via the Rosetta-translation tech, was another eye-opener.
As a user, the exciting part was watching the x86-based Mac that Mr. Jobs was using chew through all of the different demos. All the eye-candy (the Dashboard ripple, for example) was there, and all of the apps (iTunes, Spotlight, Photoshop, etc.) seemed to perform flawlessly.
It was also exciting to realize that I won't have to re-purchase all of my current applications again. I use a lot of the iApps, with the balance of my time spent in DreamWeaver (which will probably be replaced by GoLive!, which Adobe has promised to port to the x86 version of OS X) and Microsoft Office, which was shown to work on x86 Mac OS X today.
Best of all it was all done with a single 3.6GHz (I think) Pentium 4. Not a dual-core machine, just a single Pentium 4. Not too shabby.
But, just imagine... a 3GHz, Dual-Core, 17-inch PowerBook!
It's not just a dream anymore!
Hey! This will be fun!
Diz
posted by Diz at 7:59 PM
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