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WWDC: Macs with Intel Inside

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U.S. joins North Korean for love-in, hell hits zero Celcius, and... Apple is switching from PowerPC to Intel processors.

Steve Jobs put an end to weeks of speculation about Intel-based Macs at the WWDC key-note address today. By mid-2006, Intel-based Mac minis will be available; by late 2007, all shipping Macs will have Intel inside.

Other than the emotional impact, what does this actually mean to developers? If you develop in Cocoa, not much: download Xcode-2.1, flip the "Universal Binary" switch on your project, and recompile. For Carbon apps, more work is supposedly required. In the short time, roll your sleeves up and do the "several weeks of work" that Steve says may be needed to port your Carbon app to Intel; in the longer term, just get it over with and implement your next version in Cocoa.

WWDC: Macs with Intel Inside [eWeek]


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