“The speed of Mac OS X running on Intel hardware is impressing some developers who’ve been privy to one of Apple’s first Intel-based developer transition systems,” AppleInsider reports. “The systems started shipping to Mac OS X developers three weeks ago, each equipped with a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 2 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz front-side bus, 1GB of 533MHz DDR2 Dual Channel SDRAM, and an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900.”
“”It’s fast,’ said one developer source of Mac OS X running on Intel’s Pentium processors. ‘Faster than [Mac OS X] on my Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5,'” AppleInsider reports. “Developers sources say the early version of Rosetta, a dynamic binary translator that is designed to run unaltered PowerPC applications on Intel Macs, is also impressive… If reports are accurate, Mac users have a lot to look forward to in regards to web browsing under Mac OS X for Intel. According to sources, web browsing in general is much faster under Mac OS X for Intel than it is under the shipping version of Mac OS X for PowerPC. Web pages snap to the screen, the same way they do in Internet Explorer running on a new Pentium system, they say.”
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