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**Chris** · 22-06-2020, 23:54

They do know how to do this sort of thing. They transitioned from PowerPC to intel chips 15 years ago and had a dynamic translator called Rosetta that allowed a lot of PPC applications to continue working on intel Macs. As both a PowerPC and intel Mac user I can attest that it worked perfectly well, although native ‘Carbon’ applications written to run natively on intel Macs obviously were quicker, smoother and prettier.

For me the most exciting thing about this is the prospect of a much more fluid relationship between Apple’s phones, tablets and PCs. It ought to be possible to effortlessly toss material between an iPhone or iPad and a full-scale Mac by just running the same app on all of them. We’re reasonably close to that at the moment with Handoff working on Apple’s own apps but outside of that it’s limited.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,929	Re: Apple to transition Macs to their own chipset They do know how to do this sort of thing. They transitioned from PowerPC to intel chips 15 years ago and had a dynamic translator called Rosetta that allowed a lot of PPC applications to continue working on intel Macs. As both a PowerPC and intel Mac user I can attest that it worked perfectly well, although native ‘Carbon’ applications written to run natively on intel Macs obviously were quicker, smoother and prettier. For me the most exciting thing about this is the prospect of a much more fluid relationship between Apple’s phones, tablets and PCs. It ought to be possible to effortlessly toss material between an iPhone or iPad and a full-scale Mac by just running the same app on all of them. We’re reasonably close to that at the moment with Handoff working on Apple’s own apps but outside of that it’s limited.