Mac OS X Intel Developer Box Feedback

Just read over at AppleInsider that the speed of Apple's Intel Developer systems are impressing the developers, even when PowerPC programs are running under Rosetta.

With this latest bit of news, I think I just might wait until they release a Intel-based PowerBook before buying one. Who else here is planning to do the same? Anyone think this would be a bad idea? And, when do you guys/gals think we'll see the first Intel-based Macs, specifically the PB's.

Still gonna get a PPC powerbook soon. I want to enjoy the damn thing, and I figure it will last me a long while. Even when they no longer make PPC-based software, I will still be able to enjoy watching movies, surfing the net, e-mail, music, etc on it.

And by then I'll probably want another notebook anyhow.

Yeah, I'm particularly excited how much faster the browsers will be under OS X-Intel.

This is an encouraging article! Not that I ever really believed the machines would be slow. *But*... I am kind of concerned that they repeatedly use load and boot times as an index of speed of performance. They should know better! Tsk tsk tsk. :rolleyes:

But I am very impressed that Apple's 70% native speed claims seem to hold true for Rosetta. I am still really, really curious about what the Transitive people know that everyone else in the emulation world does not!

All in all... given that the Pentium M is faster at a given clock speed by a significant margin than the P4, and that a P4/3.6 seems to be quite fast, this really bodes well for what the portables will look like in the Mactel world. Given that there are already PB's running at twice the clock speed of my iBook G4, I think if I keep this thing until a 12" or thin/light class notebook comes out of Apple, that I will be very pleasantly surprised with its performance! :D

I'm looking forward to those great products that will become possible with the use of the Intel roadmap :)

Glad to see that Steve's decision to go with 'faster' processors is coming to pass. This is very good news for the x86 switch...

Its a 3.6 P4 what do people expect? PPC See Yah wouldnt want to be yah :D The years of the best software on the slowest hardware are almost over.

Yup, Ill be inline for a Mactel PB the moment they are announced. Really looking forward to these things. Good to see that the speeds are impressive, although the PMs pics with the intel chips in them just look wrong.

Just read over at AppleInsider that the speed of Apple's Intel Developer systems are impressing the developers, even when PowerPC programs are running under Rosetta.

With this latest bit of news, I think I just might wait until they release a Intel-based PowerBook before buying one. Who else here is planning to do the same? Anyone think this would be a bad idea? And, when do you guys/gals think we'll see the first Intel-based Macs, specifically the PB's.

That's my plan, now I just have to finance it. Luckily there's still a good bit of time before they come out. I think the intel mac will be a good reason to wait, because Windows will run at full speed, and better yet WINE will run at full speed. (WINE is still promising an x86 emulator for PPC, so a PPC mac isn't dead-ended in this respect, but if it does come it will take longer and will still be slower.)

That's my plan, now I just have to finance it. Luckily there's still a good bit of time before they come out. I think the intel mac will be a good reason to wait, because Windows will run at full speed, and better yet WINE will run at full speed. (WINE is still promising an x86 emulator for PPC, so a PPC mac isn't dead-ended in this respect, but if it does come it will take longer and will still be slower.)

I thought there was no need for an x86 for PPC emulator, since programs will be compiled with the option of making both PPC code and x86 code, right?