Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

[Dennis Brown]

If it took changing 20 lines of code out of one million, and it took  
20 minutes to do this without any training on what to do before hand  
to make Mathematica run on the new architecture, that must be a lot  
easier than changing to run on a "New Advanced yet to be announced"  
version of a Power PC.  What this means is that supporting PPC or the  
new Apptel architecture will be largely transparent.  The Rosetta  
translator will make it a snap.  If you want to get the last 10% of  
speed out of it, you might need to put more effort into it, but if a  
little bit of speed is that important, wait a month for the next  
processor speed bump.

As far as buying a new PPC Mac now, I am planning on it soon.  I need  
another mini for some automation stuff.  I am not worried about it  
becoming obsolete in a year.  Heck, every CPU I have ever bought was  
obsolete 3 months after I bought it anyway.  And since it is no extra  
work for developers to support the older installed PPC base, I am not  
worried about not having the latest versions of programs available  
for me to use until I decide to upgrade my processor speed.

Dennis

On Jun 6, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Devin Asay wrote:

> Will it affect Apple's user base? Who knows. Mac users are  
> intensely loyal, and the transition will be transparent to the end  
> user. If the developer community stays on board, Apple should make  
> the transition okay.
>
> The bottom line is if you abandon Mac OS X your choice is ... what?  
> Switch to Windows? LInux?
>
> I'm not planning to do either.
>
> I'll be interesting in hearing reactions from developers this week.
>
> Devin