[MLUG - DISCUSSION] steve jobs keynote link

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

http://stream.apple.akadns.net/

The reality distortion field seems to be set on medium high.  The
impressive part is that all of the demos in the keynote were run on
Intel hardware.  Most (all?) of the Apple apps were natively compiled,
but they also showed off their on-the-fly translator from PPC to
Intel.  It worked, and it *doesn't* require anything like Classic. 
Photoshop took forever to load (not ever a fast loader) because all of
the plug-ins were translated on the fly as well as they loaded.  Speed
of translated binaries looked mediocre to me.  The stuff would be
usable, but not great.  Binaries that include code for both Intel and
PowerPC will be encouraged through 2007; Xcode2.1 allows you to do
that now.

As far as encouraging Wine goes, the MS person from the Mac Business
Unit (one of MS's most profitable divisions) said that Office will be
re-compiled as a universal binary; so much for needing Wine...  Adobe
was on board as porting their stuff.  Mathematica has a working port
already.  Evidently, over the next year the big challenges will be
re-engineering the notebooks and such to be Intel-based, since that's
where the largest gain is to be had.  My guess is that the last stuff
to be PowerPC will be XServe and the upper level PowerMacs, since
those are already competitive products in their respective niches
(multiprocessor number crunching).

I still think they're going to get murdered selling PowerPC hardware
until the first Intel Inside stuff is released, so I suspect they'll
push really hard to get some of these ported over as quickly as
possible; I'm guessing San Fransisco MacWorld in 2006.

jking

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