Apple has posted information and a purchase link for the ‘Developer Transition Kit’ which brings together all the components needed to create Universal Binaries that run on Macintosh computers using Intel microprocessors. The Kit contains the information, sample code, software, and hardware that developers need to develop a Universal Binary.
• Universal Binary Programming Guidelines: The Programming Guidelines cover all the Universal Binary, Xcode and Intel topics you’ll need to know. It guides you through the straightforward steps needed to create a Universal Binary and optimize it.
• Universal Binary Sample Code: This folder of Universal Binary sample code contains a representative sampling of all Mac OS X programming topics and demonstrates the simple steps needed to ensure Universal Binary compatibility. Browse through the samples to see the Universal Binary Guidelines ideas brought to life.
• Developer Technical Support: You’ll have access to Apple’s Developer Support Engineers to support your development with the Developer Transition Kit.
• Use of a Developer Transition System: This development system allows you to create Universal Binaries and validate and verify that your application runs on Macintosh computers using Intel microprocessors. This Developer Transition System includes:
– Mac OS X: The development system has the preview release of Mac OS X Tiger on Intel pre-installed, allowing you to run, verify, and debug your Universal Binary application.
– Xcode 2.1: The development system comes pre-loaded with Xcode 2.1. Xcode 2.1 is the development environment for creating Universal Binaries. Updates and additional downloads of Xcode 2.1 will be made available as needed for Transition Kit developers.
The combination of the Developer Transition System, the Universal Binary Programming Guidelines, the Sample Code, and Developer Technical Support gives you everything you need to move your application to the Universal Binary Format.
The Developer Transition Kit is available for US$999 today. You must be an ADC Select or Premier Member to purchase the Developer Transition Kit.
More info here.
Does it include Rosetta? If so, is it really Transitive’s emulations technology that Apple licensed?
Apple to Developers: Dudes, you just got Dells!
wow old news
“Apple to Developers: Dudes, you just got Dells!”
no.
Can’t wait to see the XBench scores on these relative to the Dual 2.7 G5.
I hope it’s not TOO laughable. CNET will have a field day.
Whoever releases XBench results is going to get their ass sued because of the NDA.
OpJ…I’d call you a troll, but most trolls at least make a small, if irrelevant point. You’re just plain dumb. Useless.
Go have your diaper changed.
Riiight, just like we never saw posts with the gold status & build numbers of Tiger, etc.
Pfft.
how much ram? disk? etc…
OnlyMacs–if my point were small, or irrelevant, you would have felt no need to reply at all. By the way, I can’t change my diapers because you already stole them and are busy wanking off into them all evening, you sick, pathetic bastard.
In addition to the Xbench score, I would love to see a cataloging of the components of the developer’s system compared to the components of a good Dell system. Just for reference.
Magic word: stop. As in, stop pretending this intel business doens’t toast your shorts like nothing before
Welp, this will be the first time for me watching the new, hot next-gen platform get smoked by the same companies’ legacy technology.
Should be a good laugh.
poop
Oye, do I have to complain again?
This is good. Drink up, dammit.
Really.
No master plan…no master race!
Here’s the developer’s transition kit, now you
decide! I hope you’re all up to the challenge.
Curiousity killed the cat…satisfaction brought him
back. Don’t forget, Apple’s lofty goals started from
the start. It’s our OS…more than you know.
We have set our sights on improvement, we’ll never
be perfect.
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OpJ,
“compared to the components of a good Dell system.
I’d like to see a good Dell system.
Don’t even bother testing them with a benchmarking program. There is no point seeing these are not even top of the like Intel Pentium processors. They aren’t 3.7 GHz Extreme edition or the new Pentium D processor that is Dual core and 64 bit running at 3.2 ghz. These are developer models and their specs will never be found in future macs. They are mid-level Pentiums.
I found out something about the back of the bus when
I claimed it. The rest was easy.
Feel free to jump around…nobody’s keeping score.
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CT
Apple said that clearly. The next-gen Mac doesn’t exist yet.
This is a dev kit so people can make apps FOR those Intel Macs ahead of time.
Speed tests on these dev machines are meaningless.
It would be interesting to see which developer comes up with the first marketable winblows ‘virtual machine’ running on this box. A vm able to run winblows apps in a window without winblows loaded, sort of like WINE for Linux but more user friendly and stable.
Damd I hate windows shit.
The contributor who said, “This is a dev kit so people can make apps FOR those Intel Macs ahead of time,” got it almost right. In point of fact, these developer transition kits exist solely so developers can get make their source code Intel-architecture-clean. The vast majority of code will recompile without change, but any code that makes assumptions about host byte order will need to be fixed. These kits exist to help developers find and change those parts of their code.
The end product of the use of these kits is not Intel-compatible applications. It’s source code that can be compiled and run on Intel-compatible Macs, the design of which is certainly still in the drawing-board stages.
These machines aren’t even prototypes. They’re basically simulators.
Are these 64 bit Pentium or the 32 bit models. They should be 64 bit models so that people can code them for a 64 bit Pentium not the 32 bit model.
They must be 64 bit because if you look here the only Pentiums that are 3.6 ghz and don’t use Intel’s new naming scheme (I don’t think a processor that has the new naming scheme was used in the keynote because it would have been called by the new naming scheme and not a Intel Pentium 4 3.6 ghz in the about window. It would have been called by its name in the new naming scheme) All of the non-named processors at 3.6 ghz are 64 bit.
look here: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium4/index.htm
Third column over is the processor apple used in the keynote.
Don’t just do something…sit there.
It’s your job. YOU COULD QUIT AND GROW UP IN STEAD OF
EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS!
You could have your code, and eat too much AND FIND
YOUR PEACE…THEN CRASH OUT.
Don’t you love it?
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THX CT
My hardware concerns are limited, but if Apple could
design a roomy box for thier new processor…they might
find that a cramped box was really a tight squeeze.
With all of the advanced technology we can bring…it
could help us all breathe easier.
Crunchy stuff. \../
CT
Don’t fall on your face…getting back to this switch.
Peace drowns. Chugalug me.
Peace frowns. Dis’ me.
Peace crows. Holler me.
Peace throws…EXTRA FAST. Get a grip, then release.
War walks away. Can you handle that?
CT