Apple to switch to x86?
I'll be watching here for the next hour.
Update: yes.
Update: OS X has been compiled for Intel chips for each of the past 5 versions, meaning this could have happened any time before. The Powermac used to demo Tiger during the keynote was actually using an x86 of some kind. Compiling will not take a lot of extra time, and the tools for doing so will be available soon. Many PPC applications will be able to run without recompiling, with the use of translation software built into Leopard, the next version of OS X. The transition begins in 2006.
Update: yes.
Update: OS X has been compiled for Intel chips for each of the past 5 versions, meaning this could have happened any time before. The Powermac used to demo Tiger during the keynote was actually using an x86 of some kind. Compiling will not take a lot of extra time, and the tools for doing so will be available soon. Many PPC applications will be able to run without recompiling, with the use of translation software built into Leopard, the next version of OS X. The transition begins in 2006.
posted by onlooker at 12:59 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home