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Member Since: Mar 09, 2004
Location: Munich
Posts: 9,075
Mac Specs: Aluminium Macbook 2.4 Ghz 4GB RAM, SSD 24" Samsung Display, iPhone 4, iPad 2
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05-19-2006, 02:32 AM
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Originally Posted by bigdaddysheikh
Hello,
Use bianry applications... well i beleive i should not be constrained to certain types of application if I am to purchase a machine. I bought this machine on the complete assumption that I would be able to run any program I wish to do so and was not constrained to certain types.
Are you suggesting that the performance of the IMAC is limited to the universal binary application? If i should not use dreamweaver or cs2, can you point on any substitute which are in universal binary.
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You made an assumption, and you were wrong. A good salesperson would have told you about the current limitations regarding certain software, especially if you had mentioned you need to run Adobe's products.
At the moment, anything that hasn't been specifically updated to run natively on the intel based macs will not run as fast as on a comparable PowerPC based machine.
That's just the way it is at the moment. Adobe will release CS 3 in 2007, which will be Universal - then you can expect stoking performance. The same goes for most other apps - they WILL run natively at some point in the future, just not all yet.
As for Doom 3 and the other games: You can download patches for them to make them universal.
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Yeah, I've had a similar experience. I downloaded the doom 3 demo and played it on my ibook g4, it wasnt really playable.
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Check the system requirements for Doom3: The iBook G4 doesn't use Rosetta, but simply doesn't have the power to run high-end games smoothly.
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Thanks
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