How disappointing ! FWB
just announced plainly they abandon RealPC development for Mac OS X. The new team, in place since July 17th, started by analyzing the project state of advancement. Unfortunately, they soon realized there was not a single existing code line of an inch of Mac OS X RealPC. After they estimated the cost of the project, including licence costs (Microsoft's ?), the team decided they'd abandon the whole thing.
Microsoft is now alone on this ground.
FWB's new goal is to go back to their first business : disk utilities.
(Thx to popboy for the info).
Perhaps you've read on some sites the testimonies of G5 users complaining Virtual PC 6 doesn't function on their new toy. Asked by a reader from
MacOSRumors, Microsoft explains why :
| Virtual PC for Mac version 6.1 is based on a PowerPC G3 and G4 functionality named 'pseudo little-endian mode', that boosts performances while emulating a Pentium. The current Virtual PC version needs this functionality. But as the G5 doesn't support it, many code portions will have to be rewritten and tested with great care so that everything runs perfectly well on this new CPU. |
Microsoft is thus not ready yet to commercialize a Virtual PC version that would work on G5s. [Now that we know RealPC is abandoned...]
Steve Jobs will inaugurate 20th Apple Expo, on Tuesday, September 16th, 10 AM.
He would talk about Panther.
This articlealso speculates on the arrival of the PowerBooks around that date, or precisely for the Expo time.
A Macnn reader has posted
in their forums the results of a benchmark series with Photoshop 7, which were made with a 1.6 Ghz G5, with 1 Go RAM and Adobe plug-in that allows to optimize Photoshop for the PPC 970 CPU. Those benches were also realized on
Aces's Hardware a series of PC configurations, from the 2200 Athlon to the 3.06 GHz HT P IV. This table sums up results (in seconds) :
Those results are quite encouraging. We eagerly expect 2 GHz G5 results, but I believe it should be by far better than those.
You have a LaserWriter 8500 but cannot print correctly under MacOS X ?
André wrote a tutorial that could help you :
http://www.sterpin.net/cups.htm
[Upd.]
Ralph brings us another solution :
last month I posted an answer in Macbidouille forum to someone who had the same issue. Soution is far simpler than to use CUPS (but this allowed people to know it exists !)
The article is (in French, read hereafter to find out why you might not need this solution if not using French Mac OS X)here
To summarize, there is an issue with the French version of the PPD LaserWriter file. If you replace this file by its English counterpart, everything works again. There were equivalent issues with other machines (not only Apple's) and the replacement by the English version corrected this.Only issue is now that printing options are in English. |
