rosetta

MichaelHo · 5 Jul 2006 at 11:22

ive been reading that you can run certain mac programs that are not made for intel macs by running them with rosetta. MS office 2004 is such a program, the new macbook has rosetta preinstalled, do they load programs under rosetta automatically?
because i just click on the word icon and it loads, takes a while though, but i think thats because i only got 512 ram.

Beepcake · 5 Jul 2006 at 11:29

Yeah, it's all automatic. Rosetta eats RAM, and doesn't seem to cache it's translations, so launch times are pretty poor. A lot of the smaller apps are Univeral Binaries now (PPC and Intel), but a lot of the more complex ones are still being worked on. Office runs quite well under Rosetta, but Photoshop and Dreamweaver are rather sluggish.

Quite a few of the 'big' apps will require an upgrade to the latest version to get a universal binary though unfortunately

FreeStream · 5 Jul 2006 at 12:17

Beepcake said:
Yeah, it's all automatic. Rosetta eats RAM, and doesn't seem to cache it's translations, so launch times are pretty poor. A lot of the smaller apps are Univeral Binaries now (PPC and Intel), but a lot of the more complex ones are still being worked on. Office runs quite well under Rosetta, but Photoshop and Dreamweaver are rather sluggish.

Quite a few of the 'big' apps will require an upgrade to the latest version to get a universal binary though unfortunately

This is whats putting me off getting a Intel Powermac, as Im not spending £600 to upgrade my CS suite to CS3 aswell as all my other software.

Cheap Quad G5 is where im going :cool:

CocoPops · 5 Jul 2006 at 12:23

Beepcake said:
Quite a few of the 'big' apps will require an upgrade to the latest version to get a universal binary though unfortunately

yep, Roxio Toast is an example..

v7.0 is ppc binary, then you update it to v7.1 which is universal

Beepcake · 5 Jul 2006 at 13:04

Concorde Rules said:
This is whats putting me off getting a Intel Powermac, as Im not spending £600 to upgrade my CS suite to CS3 aswell as all my other software.

Cheap Quad G5 is where im going

I'm only hoping they do a cheap upgrade option from CS2->CS3 for the Mac.. only time will tell though.