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mac intel
When will HD be updated for the new mac intel?
From the latest Ilexsoft eNews issue http://www.ilexsoft.com/enews/currentissue/#2:
"Last January, on the stage of the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced two new Macintosh models: the iMac and the portable Mac Book Pro. Both are powered by an Intel® Core™Duo processor instead of the traditional IBM®-Motorola® PowerPC™ chips.
This new architecture requires a new format for applications Apple calls "Universal Binary". A Universal Binary application is able of running natively on both Intel and PowerPC machines. Non-Universal applications, that is, all the Mac applications designed to run on a Mac until January 2006, can be used on a new Intel-based Macintosh thanks to a translation technology called "Rosetta".
Ilexsoft is committed to fully supporting the new Intel-based Mac computers. This means that HighDesign will be available as a Universal Binary application later this year. There are no technical issues on our side, but the conversion process requires care and testing as we want to deliver a reliable, quality product.
HighDesign 1.6.2 and Rosetta
HighDesign 1.6.2 has been tested on the new Intel Core Duo iMacs with positive results. No issues have been found so far apart from a performance degradation. Depending on the system configuration and the amount of installed RAM, HighDesign may be slower than it is running on PowerPC-based Macs. These performance issues are mitigated by higher amounts of RAM, since Rosetta caches translated instructions into memory during the execution of an application."
"Last January, on the stage of the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced two new Macintosh models: the iMac and the portable Mac Book Pro. Both are powered by an Intel® Core™Duo processor instead of the traditional IBM®-Motorola® PowerPC™ chips.
This new architecture requires a new format for applications Apple calls "Universal Binary". A Universal Binary application is able of running natively on both Intel and PowerPC machines. Non-Universal applications, that is, all the Mac applications designed to run on a Mac until January 2006, can be used on a new Intel-based Macintosh thanks to a translation technology called "Rosetta".
Ilexsoft is committed to fully supporting the new Intel-based Mac computers. This means that HighDesign will be available as a Universal Binary application later this year. There are no technical issues on our side, but the conversion process requires care and testing as we want to deliver a reliable, quality product.
HighDesign 1.6.2 and Rosetta
HighDesign 1.6.2 has been tested on the new Intel Core Duo iMacs with positive results. No issues have been found so far apart from a performance degradation. Depending on the system configuration and the amount of installed RAM, HighDesign may be slower than it is running on PowerPC-based Macs. These performance issues are mitigated by higher amounts of RAM, since Rosetta caches translated instructions into memory during the execution of an application."