Re: The Register publishes Intel rumour

Chris Ridd <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 17/11/05 3:57, in article
> 1132243044.856557.276130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "macfizz@xxxxxxxxx"
> <macfizz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Edd wrote:
> >>
> >> Recompilation for many apps will not be a particularly big deal. If
> >> you've not written anything CPU-specific in your code anyway, and
> >> you've been developing in XCode, then it's not going to take much to
> >> recompile your app for Intel. Remember, it's still an OS X app. It's
> >> not like porting from OS X to Windows, and developers have had a head
> >> start on the rest of us when it comes to Intel Macs.
> >>
> >
> > Even though it isn't a big deal for the developers, it still means an
> > upgrade for every application sooner or later - with associated costs.
> > Unless of course Adobe, Microsoft, etc are going to send out their
> > Macintel upgrades free of charge :-)
>
> While they'll hate doing the work, they'll love getting the upgrade money!
>
> OTOH developers like Omni Group (OmniWeb, OmniGraffle, OmniOutline, etc)
> have stated they'll be giving free Intel binary versions to customers of
> their current versions.

Indeed. If you have the current versions of applications you would be
ok. The problem comes when you have the previous versions.


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