War of the Virtual Worlds - Transcript

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Dustin: What concerns me about the change is, I was hearing that OS X was designed to run on Macs and on Intel machines, PC based machines from the get go. And I wanted to know for like I have like $10,000 plus of software. Am I going to be having to buy this again for the new bootable system because we upgrade our tower every year. Right now we are running Adobe G5. And just with the extensive video and photo editing we do am I going to have to buy Photoshops and everything over again or is it going to be something like a carbon over? You said that new system that will be running on Intel chips in a couple of years.

Max: Okay so I am going to touch that on two parts and I actually have experience. My 8 year old daughter recently received an Intel-base Mac from Apple. And we have been playing all kinds of great stuff and we can play our XP games as well as we edited a video that she did right there in iMovie. And the other cool thing is iMovie is not Intel native. So we ran that through the emulation layer called Rosetta and it worked flawlessly. I couldn*t tell.

Dustin: Wouldn*t, would that slow anything down?

Max: On the machine it really didn*t seem that noticeable.

Dustin: Wow.

Max: Because that*s, I mean depends on what you are doing.

David Lawrence: And this is what everybody was screaming about the weekend that this announcement was first covered by CNET the Friday before. And then people that do this kind of show like Leo Laporte and others were very concerned about the fact that you know big NDN versus little NDN. The way the codes were put in and when I went on the show that Saturday night I said I don*t think you have to worry about that because the development scheme has been in place for 4 years at Apple.

Max: Plus my argument when I talk to you that Monday or Tuesday is I was part of the NeXT release team for Intel in 1992.

David Lawrence: Yeah I see.

Max: I had quad-fat binaries in *92. I supported a 68040 Intel HPPA and SPARC and from any one of the machines I could create a quad-fat binary that would run on any of the other 3 machines I wasn*t sitting in front of. So the software experience will be exactly the same and that*s what makes the Mac so wonderful. iTunes is so easy to use, iPhoto so easy to use. If the developers get on board with what they are now calling Universal Binaries Adobe said they were going to do it it's going to be awesome and I don*t think you have anything to worry about.

David Lawrence: Right. For those of you that don*t know what quad-fat binaries were we will talk about that when we come back because that*s what Macintosh went through for those of you the real timers when they switched to the PowerPC chip and we had fat binaries just dual fat binaries. It's Online Tonight I am David Lawrence back in a moment.

David Lawrence: First let*s rewind the backup tapes to last week where we counted down the hottest E-tracks for 2004. The hottest track online for the whole year was Dido with White Flag.

David Lawrence: Alright there you go that*s Dido with White Flag #1 for the whole year. Now let*s back track even further which song was on top at the end of December. Well that was Lost Lonely Boys in Heaven. Here*s a sample.

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