I'm not a die hard Apple sort of guy. I love my Apple machines and I come home to OS X Tiger, to relax from using Windows XP all day at work. So I'm not going to go one about any blasphemy on Apple's part or anything like that because quite frankly, who cares.
What *I* care about, is owning a PowerBook in about a years time that runs at over 3Ghz and allows me to run OS X the way it was meant to be run. With all the speed and responsiveness Windows user's on PCs have come to expect from even their low end machines.
Lets not mince word here. OS X is sloooow on anything but a fast G4 PowerMac or G5. I can imagine that OS X on a fast Intel processor will fly, with near instant application launching (given a good hard disk and bus etc) and that Java applications will finally run properly! Ever tried launching JBuilder 2005 on OS X with *any* of the JVMs available on the mac? On my humble G4 powerbook 1Ghz machine, it takes about a minute. Not acceptable. On my P4 machine it takes less than 20 seconds on a bad day.
What impresses me the most however, is that Apple have already released updates to XCode for compiling what they call 'Universal Binaries' to target both architectures ( Intel and PowerPC ), and that PowerPC binaries will still be able to run on an Intel architecture using an emulation technology called Rosetta, that according to Jobs is fast and transparent to users. Something Classic was not :-)
I can't wait.
What *I* care about, is owning a PowerBook in about a years time that runs at over 3Ghz and allows me to run OS X the way it was meant to be run. With all the speed and responsiveness Windows user's on PCs have come to expect from even their low end machines.
Lets not mince word here. OS X is sloooow on anything but a fast G4 PowerMac or G5. I can imagine that OS X on a fast Intel processor will fly, with near instant application launching (given a good hard disk and bus etc) and that Java applications will finally run properly! Ever tried launching JBuilder 2005 on OS X with *any* of the JVMs available on the mac? On my humble G4 powerbook 1Ghz machine, it takes about a minute. Not acceptable. On my P4 machine it takes less than 20 seconds on a bad day.
What impresses me the most however, is that Apple have already released updates to XCode for compiling what they call 'Universal Binaries' to target both architectures ( Intel and PowerPC ), and that PowerPC binaries will still be able to run on an Intel architecture using an emulation technology called Rosetta, that according to Jobs is fast and transparent to users. Something Classic was not :-)
I can't wait.
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