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    Software compatibility

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by SaferSephiroth, Sep 5, 2007.

  1. SaferSephiroth

    SaferSephiroth The calamity from within

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    One of my buddies has a Powerbook G4 and he is willing to give me some of the programs he has for it. Will i be able to run these programs on the MBP? Will it have to use Rosetta?

    Im still prety unclear about what will work natively in the IntelMacs and what needs to be emulated or whatever. Im sure Rosetta won't be around forever.
     
    SaferSephiroth, Sep 5, 2007
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  2. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    It depends on the application. If you know for sure it is a PowerPC application (Office 2004, Photoshop CS2), it will run under Rosetta. If it says Universal Binary (all new Mac software have this label) then it runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel.
     
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