Universals Catching Up
I’ve been getting a bit tired of the lagging performance of my G5 applications running under Rosetta. Oh, they all run “well enough”, but I can tell they’re slow not only because I still own a dual G5 PowerMac but I see how snappy my Intel native applications are. Thankfully, developers have been slowly catching up with the Intel transition.
One of the applications I use I really like is MT-NewsWatcher, a simple but steady little app I use to get into Usenet groups. It’s been working fine under Rosetta, but the developer (Simon Frasier) has released a Universal Binary version I loaded last night. It is indeed snappier than the G5 version, and I’m very happy to have it running now. When I made the switch to an Intel powered Mac, I wasn’t sure if this application was going to follow along. It has, and it’s free. You can find it here. A donation to Simon via Paypal is always appreciated.
I had just installed Flip4Mac on all my Macs when I switched, and I’ve been working around its refusal to run inside Safari in Native mode by running Safari in Rosetta. I’ve been taking a speed hit there because of that, though not a huge one. Still, I was heartened last night to learn that Universal Binary versions of the application will be arriving soon. I’ll be checking their website over the next few weeks to pick up the UB version as soon as it emerges.
Of course, the big laggards are Microsoft Office and my Adobe applications. All that stuff down work “well enough” but I still am getting tired of waiting for those companies to release Universal Binary versions. In the meantime, I am doing some of my work on my PowerMac when it’s not busy cranking out videos. And I’ve been looking around at word processors and office applications from smaller, third party developers to see if there was something I’d be happy with until Microsoft released a UB version of Office. I haven’t found anything, but that doesn’t mean I won’t. The longer Adobe and Microsoft delay putting out updates, the more likely it is I won’t need them at all.
One of the applications I use I really like is MT-NewsWatcher, a simple but steady little app I use to get into Usenet groups. It’s been working fine under Rosetta, but the developer (Simon Frasier) has released a Universal Binary version I loaded last night. It is indeed snappier than the G5 version, and I’m very happy to have it running now. When I made the switch to an Intel powered Mac, I wasn’t sure if this application was going to follow along. It has, and it’s free. You can find it here. A donation to Simon via Paypal is always appreciated.
I had just installed Flip4Mac on all my Macs when I switched, and I’ve been working around its refusal to run inside Safari in Native mode by running Safari in Rosetta. I’ve been taking a speed hit there because of that, though not a huge one. Still, I was heartened last night to learn that Universal Binary versions of the application will be arriving soon. I’ll be checking their website over the next few weeks to pick up the UB version as soon as it emerges.
Of course, the big laggards are Microsoft Office and my Adobe applications. All that stuff down work “well enough” but I still am getting tired of waiting for those companies to release Universal Binary versions. In the meantime, I am doing some of my work on my PowerMac when it’s not busy cranking out videos. And I’ve been looking around at word processors and office applications from smaller, third party developers to see if there was something I’d be happy with until Microsoft released a UB version of Office. I haven’t found anything, but that doesn’t mean I won’t. The longer Adobe and Microsoft delay putting out updates, the more likely it is I won’t need them at all.
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