Re: Apple introduces Safari for Windows

In article <9%hbi.26791$JZ3.5422@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Courtney Goodin" <cmgoodin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

HMMMM Very Interesting....

I wonder if the Windows Version of FCP is next....???

----Courtney

also, of interest to you might be the across the board 64 bit thing and
the discussion of Boot Camp and virtualization software:

"Leopard is 64 bit from top to bottom." This is the first time that
64-bit will be mainstream in the computer world, he said -- not only
does mean Leopard's Unix underpinnings will be 64-bit, but so will Cocoa.
"One version of Leopard runs 32-bit and 64-bit apps side by side,"
explained Jobs. "If you write a 64-bit app, you can guarantee that it
will run on every copy of Leopard out there."

To demonstrate the capability, Jobs loaded a giant photograph -- 4GB in
size -- into a demo application that showed CPU and disk access. One
version ran in 32-bit mode, the other in 64-bit mode. Running filters on
both systems, the 32-bit version took 81 seconds to complete the tasks,
hammering the hard disk in the process. The 64-bit version was able to
load everything into memory, and finished in 28.48 seconds.
"We're seeing a real need for 64 bits not just in scientific
computation, but we're hearing it more and more in the professional
arts, whether it's animation or the high-end Photoshop market," said
Jobs. "And please remember, almost every computer we ship is 64-bit
capable."

Jobs also demonstrated Core Animation, which enables developers to
perform extensive animation capabilities within their apps simply by
calling forth core technology in the operating system, similar to how
Tiger's Core Image and Core Audio technology works.

"Boot Camp's pretty amazing," said Jobs, moving on to the sixth major
feature of Leopard on display at this keynote. "Since we put it out a
little over a year ago, we've had over 2.5 million downloads fo the
beta. With Leopard, Boot Camp is now going to be build in. It lets you
run Windows XP and Vista at native speed."
Jobs said that with the Leopard implementation of Vista, users will no
longer have to burn a CD of Windows drivers or install those drivers
separately -- it will be built in to the operating system.

Users concerned that Leopard would devalue third-party virtualization
software like Parallels Desktop for Mac or VMware Fusion need not worry.
Jobs called Boot Camp "a great complement" to those products and said,
"There are three great ways to run Windows on a Mac." Apple is helping
VMware and Parallels "as much as we can," said Jobs.
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