Mac Yin/Intel Yang
How will you know when your favorite Mac application will run on a new Intel chip powered model? Just look for the dual Mac/Universal logo, shown at right.
Apple has a new licensing program in place for developers wishing to display the Universal logo on their products.
According to this MacWorld article, there are at least 200 currently-shipping products that run natively on the Intel-powered Macs. However, this list shows only 40 (most of them minor utilities), MacInTouch's list has more but its format makes it more difficult to quantify the exact number, and Apple's Product Guide seems to be the most complete with over 300 items. Regardless, this is just a drop in the bucket, considering the thousands of applications currently compatible with OS X.
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I love the ICBM acronym...talk about an allusion to power and speed! And destruction, but let's not go there. :o
Rosetta's still just a stop-gap and unless a bunch of mainstream apps get converted to Universal pretty quickly (everything Adobe and MS, for starters) I don't think Apple's going to see the ICBMs achieve their full sales potential. I know I'm going to hold off for a while.
Posted by: Eric at January 24, 2006 08:39 PMWhen I saw the ICBM acronym the first thing that popped into my head was the movie 'War Games'. But I don't think they used a MAC in the movie.
Posted by: shannon at January 25, 2006 01:18 PMOf course they didn't. They wouldn't have lost control of it. ;-)
[Then there's the tiny detail that "War Games" was released in '83, a year before the first Mac. But you knew that.]
Posted by: Eric at January 25, 2006 01:34 PMAbout the publisher
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Most existing Mac apps should run just fine on an ICBM (my favorite newly-redefined acronym: Intel Chip Based Macs)
...cuzza the Rosetta emulator.
Certainly a universal binary will run *faster* than an emulated one but - as with the move from the 680x0 chips to the PowePC chips, Apple's got you covered as much as they can.
Posted by: Brian at January 24, 2006 08:31 PM