ready for macbook pro/intel switch?

February 20, 2006

am i really ready to switch my mac experience to the intel platform? i compiled a list of my most used applications on osx, and determined whether they were universal binary or rosetta emulation. out of my 24 most used applications, 14 were universal binaries and 10 were rosetta emulation. only one i could confirm would not be universal binary until 2007, and that’s the well known adobe photoshop. here’s the list for those curious:

Feeder - Universal
Transmit - Universal
iLife 06 (Garageband, iTunes) - Universal
Terminal - Universal
Safari - Universal
Camino - Universal
Geektool - Intel build @ kung-foo.tv
AdiumX - Universal
Quicksilver - Universal
Connect 360 - Universal
Audio Hijack Pro - Universal
OmniOutliner - Universal
Growl - Universal
iWork 06 - Universal

Firefox - Rosetta
Desktop Manager - Rosetta
Photoshop - Rosetta
MPlayer - Rosetta
Azureus - Rosetta
Skype - Rosetta (ON2 video codecs are using ALTIVEC, which can be emulated)
tickr - Rosetta
TinkerTool - Rosetta
Snapz Pro X - Rosetta (Universal in works)
Asterisk - Rosetta

i was pleased to see that out of these 10 that have to be emulated, only 2 cost money: Adobe Photoshop and Snapz Pro X. when my macbook pro arrives on wednesday, i think i’ll be ready..