Yep. They unceremoniously dropped the first Rosetta without warning, destroying a lot of investment into applications. Even though it could have been left in place as an option for those who were willing to use the few MB of disk space it took.
That would have meant developers would have continued to drag their feet. Sorry, at some point you have to force their hand. It's not as if they weren't given MORE than ample time to make the transition.
That would have meant developers would have continued to drag their feet. Sorry, at some point you have to force their hand.
Only when you can't offer a compelling inducement without force. And that's Apple's position; at the time at which they switched from PPC to x86, the PPC processors were still about as fast as the x86 processors. And it cost a metric assload of money to buy a new intel Macintosh, because Macs are expensive. (Whether they are overpriced is left as an exercise for the reader.) When Apple transitioned from 68k to PowerPC, the PowerPC was a massive performance improvement over any 68k processor available. Even
For the most part those devs who would bother already had.
I have a cheesegrater running Mojave. I'd love to replace it with say a mini, but because I rely on a couple of applications -- for which I have not found replacements -- that were never compiled into 64 bit binaries I'm stuck.
What you're saying is basically "What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light years away, you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in l
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translation: you have 2 years
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I'm so sorry those mean people took your punch cards.
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That would have meant developers would have continued to drag their feet. Sorry, at some point you have to force their hand.
Only when you can't offer a compelling inducement without force. And that's Apple's position; at the time at which they switched from PPC to x86, the PPC processors were still about as fast as the x86 processors. And it cost a metric assload of money to buy a new intel Macintosh, because Macs are expensive. (Whether they are overpriced is left as an exercise for the reader.) When Apple transitioned from 68k to PowerPC, the PowerPC was a massive performance improvement over any 68k processor available. Even
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Only when you can't offer a compelling inducement without force. And that's Apple's position; at the time at which they switched from PPC to x86
How's your G5 laptop holding up?
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For the most part those devs who would bother already had.
I have a cheesegrater running Mojave. I'd love to replace it with say a mini, but because I rely on a couple of applications -- for which I have not found replacements -- that were never compiled into 64 bit binaries I'm stuck.
What you're saying is basically "What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light years away, you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in l