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Apple Computing Products:
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MacBook and Rosetta
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<blockquote data-quote="Discerptor" data-source="post: 186826" data-attributes="member: 12177"><p>The vast majority of everyday-use apps that you will most likely actually use are Universal to be perfectly honest. This includes all the Apple apps and Adium, which are basically what I have in my Dock besides MS Office. More specialized apps and MS Office are not Universal yet, but unless it's a really intensive pro app like Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator it should run well enough for your needs until they go universal. And even in the Adobe case, the performance is fine for CASUAL use. Otherwise, you're best off with a PowerBook or waiting a year.</p><p></p><p>As for games, they rely far more on the GPU than anything else nowadays, and the X1600 completely destroys what's inside the PowerBooks, and almost every laptop out there now for that matter. Furthermore, Warcraft 3 isn't exactly very intensive (the fact it can be run at full specs on my laptop with no slowdown is proof enough of that). And the newer games that come out will be universal or have patches to make them that way. In fact, WoW is already native and it sings on Intel macs. And no, Rosetta will NOT mess up your MacBook Pro.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Discerptor, post: 186826, member: 12177"] The vast majority of everyday-use apps that you will most likely actually use are Universal to be perfectly honest. This includes all the Apple apps and Adium, which are basically what I have in my Dock besides MS Office. More specialized apps and MS Office are not Universal yet, but unless it's a really intensive pro app like Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator it should run well enough for your needs until they go universal. And even in the Adobe case, the performance is fine for CASUAL use. Otherwise, you're best off with a PowerBook or waiting a year. As for games, they rely far more on the GPU than anything else nowadays, and the X1600 completely destroys what's inside the PowerBooks, and almost every laptop out there now for that matter. Furthermore, Warcraft 3 isn't exactly very intensive (the fact it can be run at full specs on my laptop with no slowdown is proof enough of that). And the newer games that come out will be universal or have patches to make them that way. In fact, WoW is already native and it sings on Intel macs. And no, Rosetta will NOT mess up your MacBook Pro. [/QUOTE]
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