powerpcs are dieing and its kinda sad cause new mac cost alot man.
PPC is dying? Nope.
Dead.
PPC is dying? Nope.
Dead.
My wife quite happily uses an iBook G4 for web browsing and e-mail. She's watching a youtube video right now.
Thats exactly how I feel about it. PowerPC is quite capable of running the software thats out today. I'm using my Powermac instead of my MacBook Pro as my primary setup and I don't feel like I'm missing any performance at all. Why so many developers have decided to start coding Intel only software instead of Universal is crap. While I don't think its necessary to support legacy hardware forever, why the heck does the Pentium 4 see more love than the G4 and G5 which are far superior. Windows XP is a decade old and for some reason Adobe doesn't have a problem supporting that old ****.its just some apps from adobe for example ,photoshop cs5 needs on a windows pc just a pentium 4 which is a single core processor and windows xp service pack 3 , so it just needs a computer from 10 years ago ,not saying it will fly under that hardware , but it can be installed,
but it needs a intel multicore processor under OSX and at least 10.5.7 ,
so it will run on a hackintoshed netbook with 1,66 ghz atom processor with 1 gb ram , but it will not on a PowerMac G5 quad 2.5 ghz with 16gb ram from 2006
and no it was not the software industries decision to abandon ppc it was Apples decision to declare the PPC architecture as useless for modern computing
PPC is dying? Nope.
Dead.
is it possible to run intel apps on a powerpc through some magical way or a way to get around the giant X through an incompatible program on a ppc?
PPC is dying? Nope.
Dead.
i agree with Joshuarocks, ALL APPS SHOULD BE MADE UNIVERSAL SO PEOPLE DONT NEED TO KEEP UPGRADING................but then again, its business for apple, by making intel only apps, in a way they force people to upgrade which = $$$$$$ for them.
There is a lot more to applications than universal binaries. If an app is written for snow leopard and uses snow leopard specific APIs, then a universal binary would be useless as it would not run on a ppc machine. The APIs can change quite a bit between releases of the OS, and apps written for version xx.Y are not guaranteed to run on xx.Y-1.
yeah in a sense its a business trick for them again. Create OS specific apps --> Ppl will have to upgrade if they want those --> people buy it --> $$$$$$ for apple.
But i do agree with you, thats very true!!
is it possible to run intel apps on a powerpc through some magical way or a way to get around the giant X through an incompatible program on a ppc?
Technology moves on. Apple can't support everything forever.
Yes, you can, some one wrote an emulator to do that.
" Qemu-Darwin-user allows Mac OS X/Intel Applications to run on Mac OS X/PowerPC. It's conceptually similar to doing the opposite of Rosetta and was therefore referred to as "Attesor". "
http://wiki.winehq.org/QemuDarwin
I just found this in a Google search.
Running Intel Mac applications on PowerPC Mac"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEcGwkgHU8A
I learned a long time ago working in IT for IBM, Intel, LSi Logic, etc, that just about any thing can be done in the software with in reason, as long as you have people with the talent dedicated to making it happen.