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MacBook Pro

Entry 437, on 2006-12-05 at 16:29:08 (Rating 2, Computers)

I'm still waiting for my Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro to arrive, which is very frustrating, but at least I have been given a Core Duo iMac to play with until then. By using the Intel processor Apple have produced a very nice machine. My tests using the Universal version of the SETI@Home (BOINC) client indicate impressive performance. The iMac is completing units well over 10 times faster than a moderately fast old G4 machine.

Of course, until all the programs we use are converted to run natively on the Intel processor we will get a relatively poor impression of the machines. Everyone I have talked to running Word on an Intel machine has been disappointed. I won't use Word myself, but I accept that many people are trapped into using it, so its important that Microsoft get the Intel version out as quickly as possible.

While I wait for the new MacBook Pro to arrive I am updating my shareware and commercial programs to new Intel versions. I hope that by the time the machine arrives I will have all my major programs, except Photoshop, updated. Unfortunately Adobe are as slow as Microsoft in producing a new version. I understand that it is a difficult process, but its still frustrating that shareware developers, Apple, and many others have updated their software already, but the two biggest software developers on the planet are still months away.

At least Rosetta is supposedly improved in the next version of the OS X, Leopard, so that will make running older programs a lot better. And my new machine is taking so long to arrive that there might be an Intel version of Photoshop available by the time it finally gets here!

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