gustav[] pEña
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Have you seen thits http://www.apple.com/aperture/
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Stephan
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Yeah, I watched it yesterday and my first reaction was "this will be the industry standard app within 2 years". Amazing stuff.
Sonnar Brian
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Does this mean that Apple will back down from leaving the PowerPC? Seems late in the game for a "dead-End" system to bring out a major product.
ijonas
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Aperture isn't your all-purpose photo-editing application, hence I don't think it will be industry-standard in 2 years and knock out Photoshop. It's geared towards wedding/press/sports-photographers where the workflow components of the software are almost more important than image manipulating features. I think Capture One is under more competitve threat than Adobe Photoshop with the release of Apple's new baby. It looks amazing and the GUI looks a joy to use if you're DSLR-slave using RAW. For all of us old-timers using film and scanners: we're forever bound to Photoshop and its Healing Brush to help us combat the fight against dust on our negatives.
With regards to "dead-end systems", I think you'll find that all new Apple software releases since announcement to switch to Intel are in the format of a Universal Binary, which will run on both MacIntel as well as MacPowerPC. Apple have just release Dual Core PowerPC G5s which absolutely fly, so there's life in the 'ole dog yet. Don't expect high-end MacIntel until 18months from now. The bottom-end of the Apple hardware range will see Intel chips first.
Its a good time to be a Mac user.
With regards to "dead-end systems", I think you'll find that all new Apple software releases since announcement to switch to Intel are in the format of a Universal Binary, which will run on both MacIntel as well as MacPowerPC. Apple have just release Dual Core PowerPC G5s which absolutely fly, so there's life in the 'ole dog yet. Don't expect high-end MacIntel until 18months from now. The bottom-end of the Apple hardware range will see Intel chips first.
Its a good time to be a Mac user.
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Stephan
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Brian Sweeney said:
leaving the power-pc ? What do you mean ? The processor changes apple is going to do next year ? I expect they are making the software compatible with the new system, besides the existing user base of mac computers in photgraphy is immense so it wouldnt be that bad anyway. And I'm sure Aperture 2.0 (upgrade for only 300 $ today !) will provide answers to all your problems 😀
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Stephan
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ijonas said:
I dont think so either. I think it will be a standard in the industry for many branches of professionnal photography, but it has NOTHING to do with photoshop.
Sonnar Brian
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"Universal Binary"
Okay, I give up. Does that mean they use a dual compiler to embed both PowerPC executable code and Intel Executable code in the same exe file? Trap an illegal instruction and switch to a different processor?
If they mean interpreted, it is VERY slow. Anyone remember P-Code?
Okay, I give up. Does that mean they use a dual compiler to embed both PowerPC executable code and Intel Executable code in the same exe file? Trap an illegal instruction and switch to a different processor?
If they mean interpreted, it is VERY slow. Anyone remember P-Code?
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Stephan
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Brian Sweeney said:
Its a developping system apple apparently lauched when then declared the change to intel x86 processors to come, its supposed to enable you to compile an application that will run natively with x86 or power-pc architecture systems, I dont think anything using this has been sold yet. Apparently there is a version of OSX reprogrammed using this package available somewhere on the internet, but I dont know wether it works or not.
edit: all kinds of info here http://developer.apple.com/transition/index.html for the code monkeys out there, I dont understand half of it 😛
ijonas
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Universal Binary: think of it as two versions of the same software, i.e. Intel & PowerPC, as one big blob. You copy the "big blob" onto your Mac, double-click the icon and hey presto, it figures out which version to run, Intel or PowerPC. Universal Binaries run at OS-native speeds and are not interpreted or processed by a translation layer, such as Apple's Rossetta Stone technology.
Universal Binaries are available today to the Apple Developmer Community. Woooo... straying off-topic here....
Long and short: I wouldn't worry about the whole Mac Intel thing just now. Its a non-issue.
Universal Binaries are available today to the Apple Developmer Community. Woooo... straying off-topic here....
Long and short: I wouldn't worry about the whole Mac Intel thing just now. Its a non-issue.
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wlewisiii
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Universal Binary is just that; a updated version of the Fat Binary used by NeXT to support NeXTStep on Intel, M68k, SPARC and PARISC with a single executable. It does create a somewhat larger file, though not as bad as you might think. Plus there were utilities that would strip out the code for all but the system the file was targeted for.
It's an interesting system and I always expected that Stevie was going to bring it back into play again.
William
It's an interesting system and I always expected that Stevie was going to bring it back into play again.
William
