Switching to Intel/Universal question...

[Ted Witcher]

I have a PowerMac G4 with several Universal applications. Here's my question: when I eventually upgrade to a Mac Pro and firewire over all my stuff, will the new machine automatically read the correct binary, or will it run the old stuff under Rosetta? How will I be able to check?

 

[gr8tfly]

It'll run it as native Intel binary, unless you check the "Open using Rosetta" option in "Get Info..." for the application.

 

[Ted Witcher]

Thanks.

 

[siurpeeman]

it will run universal binaries correctly. what it won't do is run classic applications.

 

[apfhex]

will the new machine automatically read the correct binary, or will it run the old stuff under Rosetta? How will I be able to check?

That's the whole point of Universal Binaries, that they work on both PPC and x86 natively. But if you want to see what your processes are running as, Activity Monitor will tell you (the "Kind" column).