[Ti] Re: Powerbook MacIntel...

[Chris Olson]

On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:

> What I'm hoping for, however, is running Windows software seamless  
> inside Mac OS X. At least this is what I think right now without  
> having really considered the effects.

The x86 dev boxes boot and run Windows just fine

> WINE with Aqua support? Native Virtual PC? Apple iWin?

VMWare.  But there's some caveats in porting PowerPC code to x86.   
Your virtual machines will probably perform better than OS X.

Check out the system requirements for iTunes movie playback on PowerPC:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
500 MHz G4 processor or better
QuickTime 7.0.3 or later
16MB video RAM

On x86:

1.5 GHz Pentium class processor or better
32MB video RAM

Source:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Three times the clock, and double the VRAM to do the same job with  
the same software ported to x86
-- 
Chris

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