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The Big Announcement from WWDC

"It's True!" - complete with lowered Intel "e".

Before you make a judgement watch the Keynote

WWDC '05 Keynote

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Why switch now?

IBM did not allow Apple to meet their performance promise of 3.0 GHz by June 2005.

Apple still cannot ship a G5 PowerBook. Intel just launch "Yonah" the dual core version of the Pentium-M.

Pentiums deliver more performance per watt translating into better battery life.

Intel probably offers Apple a price advantage over AMD due to volume

Intel does have 64-bit versions of the Pentium and Pentium Extreme Edition for desktops.

Will Apple continue dual processor machines when they go Intel? Does it matter?

What about software?

Apple has had the "what if department". They have compiled every version of OS X for the last 5 years to run on Intel and PowerPC

The project know as "Marklar"

Dual Binaries are the future

Widgets, scripts and Java run with no conversion

Cocoa Apps developed in XCode can be converted and recompiled in days

Carbon apps developed in XCode will take longer. A few weeks

Anything developed in CodeWarrior needs to be moved to XCode first

New version of XCode was release along with Pentium 3.6

Rosetta for existing apps

Translates PowerPC binaries on the fly to run on Intel

Won't work for any apps that "require" a G4 or G5, which I think is any app that depends on the velocity engine in the PowerPC. Mostly high end 3D apps and games.

What about Games?

Might actually hurt the developers, as porting may not be necessary. (see below)

Gamers could benefit.

Will Macs be less secure?

Probably not. Most hacks take advantage of flaws in the OS and that is not changing

Low level hacks do exist and in theory could occur, but are not likely. Apple may not use the same low level software as PCs

Should I wait to buy a new Mac?

I don't think so. New Intel based macs are 1 year away.

A computer is "obsolete" the day you buy it. So do you need a new Mac?

Do you want to be the first owner of an new Apple architecture?

Unconverted apps may actually run slower at first.

Next version of OS X (Leopard) will run on PowerPC too

It will take some developers longer to transition

Will there be a version of OS X for PC

Phil Shiller says no.

Will I be able to run Windows on my Mac?

Apple basically says they won't try to stop it, but won't support it either

Possible to have Virtual PC with little or no performance hit. Could possibly run much like Classic does today for OS 9 apps.