News on the PowerPC – Intel Transition for Macs.
Don’t forget, Macworld San Francisco 2006 starts this week, with the keynote from Steve Jobs being tomorrow morning at 9:00am PST/California. Nothing as earth shattering as the move to Intel announced last year, but there are good indications of new hardware being rolled out (Intel Core Duo powered Mac minis and iBooks being mentioned).
First Apple started the move to Intel/x86. Now they have a four-button mouse. Of course, the “Mighty Mouse” still looks like a one-button mouse 🙂
If there are any GenerationX users out there (GenerationX is an open-source software genealogy application for Mac OS X), I have successfully compiled GenerationX using Xcode 2.1 (including Universal/Intel Binaries). Although the project does not appear to be active, the source code is still available. followup
We are just as surprised as anybody else. Apple is going to switch to Intel processors for the Mac lineup, starting June of 2006. article at Apple.com Note: It does appear official – “Classic” apps (those build for MacOS 8 & 9, and/or below) will not be able to run … Read more