“Intel-native versions of Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office are still a ways off. But Mac users running these and other programs via Apple’s Rosetta emulation technology on their Intel-based Macs have gotten a significant performance boost from Mac OS X 10.4.8. Macworld Lab tests found improvements in the performance of some non-Intel-native apps on systems running September’s OS X update—with some systems seeing their performance jump by more than 30 percent,” James Galbraith reports for Macworld.
Full article, with benchmarks of Rosetta performance in MAc OS X 10.4.6/7 vs.10.4.8 here.
Kinda disproves the silly notion that “minor point releases” like 10.4.8 are just bug fixes….this is a major enhancement for a lot of people.
I can’t remember which one it was, but one of the last few updates gave me a few more fps in Doom 3. That’s always a welcome surprise.
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I’ve only got a couple of programs that use Rosetta (I think), so I just loaded two Safari pages, Mail, iTunes (5.25 GB) iPhoto (3.5 gb), EyeTV, activty Moniter, OmniOutliner Pro, Neo Office, Real useless Player(which I don’t use) and then loaded Quicken 6 and Meteorologist (PPC) on my InteliMac Core Duo 20 with 1.5 GB RAM.
While looking at my pitifully small bank account and linking to my bank, while watching Cavuto on TV and web pages going, not a fricking blink.
Two questions I ask myself a lot these days.
Why did I stay married to a semi-insane woman for twenty years? (ok, I remember two right now, but they all have those)
and why, God, did I not get a Mac sooner.
I should have left both of them long ago…
TowerTone,
Your Mac doesn’t get half when you part ways, either.
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Welcome aboard.
TowerTone–
Welcome to the light!
I have two PowerPC-based Macs and 10.4.8 runs FREAKIN’ AWESOME on both of them. It has to be Apple’s best version of OS X to date (beating 10.3.9 as my previous favorite).
I just hope 10.4.9 is even better.
Keep it coming Apple!
TowerTone,
Thank God I didn’t get married to the girl I just ditched. Three years before I saw the light, but I finally did.
Keep looking. You’ll find an even nicer pair of johnnies out there.
Here’s to all the women we’ve ditched (or was the other way around?) and the Macs we’ve kept.
We’re much the better for both!
Why did performance get worse for the G5s?
Saw this note on the MacCentral forum RE: the 10.4.8 update:
I work for an advertising agency and we unfortunately had to revert all of our intel macs to 10.4.7 because of the problems with Illustrator and InDesign. In particular the PathFinder crashes in Illustrator. If you use PathFinder a lot (I would assume most designers), I would suggest sticking to 10.4.7 until the issue is resolved since 10.4.8 make it unusable.
I’m having the same issue, will move back to 10.4.7 this weekend.
Ok I’ll bite…
Cubert.. you’ll have to forgive my non-queens commonwealth speech impediment…
but what in the world are “johnnies”?
Well, I’m guessing, it is what Johnny doesn’t have, but what he wants, and Jane happens to have.
semi-insane woman
Isn’t that redunant?
Thank God I didn’t get married to the girl I just ditched. Three years before I saw the light, but I finally did.
It’s good to escape a nasty future.
At least you didn’t get trapped. Many have.
No problem with Illustrator or InDesign here. Strange.
Well, typically chaps, johnnie usually refers to a random person, usually a bloke. As in “see that tall johnnie over there?”. This is actually a derivation of Johnson, which means penis, and hence why condoms are called rubber johnnies.
So your man’s usage of the term johnnie is unfamiliar to this little commonwealth johnnie.
He means breasts
And the best things bout macs is that they don’t get half as upset as a ‘semi-insane woman’. I’ll toast to leavin those crazy ones behind, and finding the good ones…..who are mac fans as well. =)
Also, you’re Mac doesn’t get jealous if you use another computer.
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I married the right woman AND switched as soon as OS X came around.
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MW: job (I wish I’d done as well with my job)
Just for kicks – remember – it’s Mac, not MAc.
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I married the greatest woman in the world. She doesn’t have johnnies. She has bazooms.
> I married the greatest woman in the world. She doesn’t have johnnies. She has bazooms.
You mean she looks like a photo-finish in an air-ship race right?
Crypto: “Why did performance get worse for the G5s?”
Why did going from iLife 5 to ’06 (the latter being the first directly comparable Macintel version) slow things down for PPC?
ummm … Marketing?
Apple’s been slightly fugging their PPC oriented software ever since there’ve been Mactels to compare ’em with. It’s more than a little pathetic if you ask me. After an almost uninterrupted string of performance boosts as you moved to their newer OSX based software, we’re expected to believe that Apple’s engineers suddenly became all thumbs at the keyboard last year.
We get it Jobs. You want us to buy the new stuff. Thing is, Mactels are selling like hotcakes & even the old diehards’ll be moving on eventually. Do you really need to intentionally hamstring PPC computers at this point? I could understand it when 32bit Yonah was the best offered, but if Intel still needs that kind of assistance now that we’re in the 64bit Merom/Woodcrest era, well then jeeze – what was the point of switching in the first place??