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Studiometry launches as though new4/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I actually had Rosetta fail on me quite dramatically on the very first day I used it. And, based on my initial experience, it won’t be particularly pretty when they do. ![]() What she will notice, however, is what happens when things go wrong with Rosetta. On the contrary, even in emulation mode, Office 2004 probably runs faster on her MacBook than Office X did on her TiBook. Since she’s used to the performance of Office X on a TiBook, I don’t think that my wife will notice that Office 2004 is not running natively on her MacBook. Fortunately, the MacBook is powerful enough that, for most tasks performed on this machine (which has 1 GB of RAM), the performance hit won’t really be noticeable. Since we still use a fair amount of non-universal Mac OS X software in this household (more notably Microsoft and Adobe products, for which universal versions won’t be available until 2007), Rosetta is very much a part of our daily computing experience. It works behind the scenes and the user is not supposed to notice when it kicks in, except maybe if it affects the performance of his machine in a significant way. Rosetta is not a visible feature in Mac OS X for Intel. These problems have to do, more specifically, with the “ Rosetta” portion of Mac OS X for Intel, which is the part that ensures backward compatibility with existing Mac OS X applications that haven’t been rewritten for the Intel processors. Now that I own an Intel-based MacBook, I am of course exposed to a whole new range of potential problems that I might not have been aware of with my PowerPC-based machines. ![]()
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