“Just six months after announcing the change, Apple has released its first Macintosh based on Intel architecture,” Andy Ihnatko writes for The Chicago Sun-Times. “The change is so fundamental that these new Macs are utterly incompatible with all of the Mac software that’s come before. But Apple has done a great job hiding that from the user. All apps now ship as ‘Universal Binaries,’ with both PowerPC and Intel code baked right in. Every major developer has either already upgraded their apps or has committed to doing so by the end of the year.”
MacDailyNews Note: Not Adobe, which now also owns Macromedia; for more information, see Adobe: no native Intel Mac support until 2007; Photoshop could be 14 months away.
Ihnatko continues, “Apple claims these new chips benchmark at two to three times the performance of the 2.1 GHz G5 iMacs they replace. But the coolest stuff is yet to come. PowerPC G5 chips burn way too much power to be used in a notebook, and thus Apple’s portables have always lagged Windows machines in performance. Lo and behold, a new MacBook Pro is due to ship in less than two months. And the entire Mac line will be Intel-based by the end of the year… An Intel Mac can also potentially run Windows apps at near-PC speed. So Apple got what it wanted: a faster and more versatile CPU, and it’s making the transition so smoothly most users won’t even notice. For all that, Apple kept the price of the iMac where it was. The only people who won’t like this iMac will be those who bought a PowerPC iMac last month.”
Full article here.
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Adobe sucks.
MDN, check your title. “Transition” is not a verb. The verb is “transit.” You can no more “transition” to something than you can “illumination” a dark room.
According to dictionary.com “transition” can also be used as a verb.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=transitions
The Oxford Dictionary would disagree:
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/transition?view=get
Shieldzee, that’s weird, the Oxford American dictionary that’s included in Mac OS X Tiger does list it as a verb. Maybe it’s a regional thing like airplane and aeroplane…
transition |tranˈzi sh ən; -ˈsi sh ən|
noun: the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another : students in transition from one program to another | a transition to multiparty democracy.
• a passage in a piece of writing that smoothly connects two topics or sections to each other.
• Music a momentary modulation from one key to another.
• Physics a change of an atom, nucleus, electron, etc., from one quantum state to another, with emission or absorption of radiation.
verb: undergo or cause to undergo a process or period of transition : [ trans. ] the network ought to be built by the federal government and then transitioned into private industry | [ intrans. ] we have transitioned from a high-intensity combat operation to a support role in the community.
DERIVATIVES
transitional |- sh ənl| adjective
transitionary |-ˌnerē| adjective
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin transitio(n-), from transire ‘go across.’
Shieldzee,
From Mac OS X Tiger’s Oxford Dictionary entry:
transition: verb
undergo or cause to undergo a process or period of transition
Tiger users: highlight the word “transition,” right-click it and choose “Look Up in Dictionary.”
And Jack Klynch, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers offers this advice:
“Transition is a perfectly respectable noun; it’s been in the language since before Shakespeare was born. It’s increasingly being used, though, as a verb — “We’ll be transitioning to the new system over the next few months” — and that’s kinda ugly. It’s still fairly recent (the OED can trace it back only to 1975), and still sounds jargony to most ears. My advice is to avoid it whenever you can.”
Shieldzee, that link you provided is for the Compact Oxford English Dictionary. It’s probably not nearly as complete as the full Oxford English Dictionary. Even the entry you linked to seems very lacking in detail.
Think that answers the question.
Ihnatko obviously hasn’t heard of Rosetta, or he wouldn’t claim that the Macintels are “utterly incompatible” with previous Mac software.
I think I do agree that the headline would read better as:
Ihnatko: As Apple makes the transition to Intel-based Macs, the coolest stuff is yet to come
But then again, that is longer, and lord knows MDN’s headlines are usually too long as it is. They always get truncated in the Mac OS X RSS screensaver.
[i[Lo and behold, a new MacBook Pro is due to ship in less than two months.
Huh? Lets try 2-3 weeks. Between this and the Rosetta omission, does this Ihnatko guy do any research?
Wish I could hit the FF button on life to get my MacBook Pro now. The next couple of weeks of waiting are going to be painful…
I don’t use any Adobe products other than Acrobat so this isn’t a big deal to me however a lot of Mac users like Photoshop. I wonder if it would make sense for Apple to buy Adobe. There may be some interesting possiblities there.
“The only people who won’t like this iMac will be those who bought a PowerPC iMac last month.”
I bought an iMac G5 for my daughter’s family at Christmas. No regrets. It is perfect for her and her young family, and will handle their requirements for for 2-3 years easily. By then, the dust will have settled on the Intel change. Frankly, average home users are better off with the G5 this early in the conversion process. I am just happy that I don’t have a burning need for a new Mac right now. I really couldn’t deal well with the frustration of having great hardware and hearing that Adobe won’t upgrade my software for more than a year.
I can’t f*cking believe this — a frickin battle of the dictionaries.
Sheesh. You Mac losers really ARE pathetic.
And now Adobe’s screwing you a bigger one, too.
Yes, oh how I so wish that I, too, were an anointed user of all things Macintosh.
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Transitions” can be used as a verb.
Everyone get off the “transition” issue and pay attention to what MacJack has written above! These comments from Andy Ihnatko about “utter incompatibility” are potentially very damaging to anyone thinking about switching from the Windoze platform. It makes it sound like you will be in a software wasteland if you buy a new iMac. We need to be emailing Andy (a very strong proponent of the Macintosh platform) and point out his erroneous statement.
Adobe did NOT say 14 months and did NOT say 2007.
The said to look at past schedules, which makes 14 months the WORST case. 8 months is the best case, and guess what, that’s late summer of THIS YEAR.
And MDN accuses others of spreading FUD to harm the Mac…
Inahtko didn’t omit Rosetta, he just didn’t mention it by name. He said, “The change is so fundamental that these new Macs are utterly incompatible with all of the Mac software that’s come before. But Apple has done a great job hiding that from the user.” That’s true, without software being rewritten/recompiled as UB or using the old software in Rosetta, PowerPC software is incompatible with Intel Macs. I think he dumbed it down for non-techies, although he could have written it a little more succinctly without getting into details.
We’re so glad you love your Windows PC and viruses just as much as we love our Macs. We don’t at ALL suspect you are jealous. Why are you visiting a Mac site unless you are jealous? Well, we can’t answer that one. Happy computing. You’re better off without OS X, iLife, and Expose anyway.
“I can’t f*cking believe this — a frickin battle of the dictionaries.”
yeah, it sucks to be a literate Mac user, arguing about stupid stuff like words n stuff. Buncha losers, we don’t got no peecees to reformat so we just sit around and argue about Shakespeare and subtle crap like that.
MDN Magic Word “but”: “I’d read the dictionary, but I’m busy fdisking and reformating my virus infected windows shitbox.”
Adobe did not say 2007 specifically but they implied that it will be no sooner than October of 2006 and quite possibly not until April of 2007. This is from their press release, “we can point to our consistent track record of releasing significant upgrades to our creative professional applications every 18-24 months”. CS2 came out in April of 2005. That means CS3 will arrive anywhere between October 2006 and April 2007. I don’t know where you got 8 to 14 months but you’re wrong.
Ohhhh lets all bow down before our mighty lord, god, and king, Macs?– Get Real! who deigned to commune among us and point out the error of our ways. Hes ssooooooo right. There has never ever in the history of forums been anyone ever who has corrected, critisized, or defended a spelling error, or misuse of a word, or improper grammer. Yep, only those heathen infidel mac users.
(ok, a little harsh, but it sure rubbed me the wrong way)
Agree with Andy I the cooolest stuff is yet to come. Adobe is dragging its heels again, just like it did with the move to OS X. And then they (adobe) wonder why Apple does things like FCP.
RE:Macs?– Get Real!
go back to redmond and finish off that double anal love triangle youve got going with gates and monkey boy balmer.
i suppose youre just a sucker for viruses.
If photographers got in line so quick to purchase Apple’s Aperture, you can bet that current users of Photoshop would line up even quicker to purchase an Apple-based image editor. Especially when Adobe is acting like a 6-year-old, trying to pressure Apple because they added technology to the system for image editing and gave consumer users some tools in iPhoto.
Act your age, Adobe. Or go away.
Tiger users: highlight the word “transition,” right-click it and choose “Look Up in Dictionary.”
Actually, Tiger users can hover their mouse cursor over a word, and press Apple, ctrl, D (give it a second to come up).
FactChecker writes: “Tiger users: highlight the word “transition,” right-click it and choose “Look Up in Dictionary.””
Or you could just hit Control-Command-D while hovering over the word with your cursor.
Or you can write the same thing some else did, but let them post first so you look like a complete bozo!
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Okay, so i’ll add this little tidbit: You can also select text, perhaps just part of a word – say “transit” in the word “transition” – and do the Control-Command-D thing; that works too (but gives you the definition for just the highlighted part).
get used to it
Shieldzee: Actually, as a verb, transition and transit mean somewhat different things. According to the Oxford dictionary (built into Tiger): Transit means to pass across or through. Transition means to undergo or cause to undergo a period of transition. But i agree with Andy C. His re-write of the headline, where transition isn’t used as a verb, sounds better.
As for Ihnatko, i understood him to imply Rosetta, although he probably should have been more explicit. As it is excerpted above, the compatibility issue sounds somewhat ambiguous, which could be misleading to folks who don’t understand what Rosetta does. I’m too lazy to go read the original to see if this is a distortion of what Ihnatko conveyed in his article. YMMV.
Thank you Mr. Tip,
That Apple-ctrl-D maneuver presents a different lookup I’ve never seen before. It’s very well executed.
thanks, tip. I learned something new today
Sorry darknite BUT,
it is spelled “criticize” not “critisize” , “grammar” not “grammer” and it’s “night” not “nite” : )
F.U.B.A.R.
LOL, that was great. For the record, ‘night’ would have been my first choice, but back in the dark ages of the early 90’s when usernames were only allowed 8 characters, there were compromises to be made. Not that I’m criticsizing tyhe dark ages or anything…..
You know, I just realized something. Whoever owns http://www.dictionary.com had to hire someone to TYPE EVERY ENTRY IN THE DICTIONARY OUT…FROM MULTIPLE DICTIONARIES!
Man, I’d hate to have that job…
Dear mac?-get real!
Tomorrow Mac users aren’t the ones to be heard saying…”what the fu…, where are all my fracken files?”
Happy Blackworm Friday
so is it possible for “transition” to be a transitive verb too??
Friend of mine here at CERN got his MacBook yesterday.
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MW/party
Boobies!