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Intel corner
Mac on Intel
About Apple's planned move to Intel CPUs
Issue: 4.2 (November/December 2005)
Author: Christian Schmitz
cSchmitz-at-rbdeveloper.com
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At the World Wide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs announced that Apple will start to move in the next year from Power PC based processors to processors made by Intel. What we currently know is that Apple has made testing machines for developers based on a Pentium IV chip and an aluminum G5 enclosure. So we can expect the new CPUs in the Intel Macs to be compatible with the Pentium IV, but next year Intel will certainly have better chips for Apple to deliver.
After this announcement, a lot of users and developers were confused. Questions were raised like, "Will REALbasic support compiling for these new Macs?", "What do I have to change in my applications?", and "Will plugins work?"
On the first question, REAL Software announced a day after Apple's announcement that they will support developing for Intel Macs. Since REALbasic has included a compiler for Intel's x86 architecture since 1999, they want to have a REALbasic version running and compiling for the new Intel Macs ready when the new machines ship.
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