Intel transition

First indications from Mac developers point to a to the Intel platform. In fact, this transition could be "the easiest of all those yet experienced by Apple developers," according to a report by RedNova. "The most difficult part about it is switching to Xcode, which is something that we'd be doing anyway," said Chuck Rogers of MacSpeech. For those who have already made that transition, the Intel switch promises to be painless. Because Apple has prepared well for the move to Intel, developers are expecting relatively few problems. "They had the OS up and running for so long," said Rich Siegel of Bare Bones, "and because the fundamental architecture of the OS is different -- everything is abstracted -- it's much easier to adapt your code for a new CPU architecture because the OS really protects you from all that."

by MacNN Staff