Just got my first Intel-Mac: questions about the transition
I just picked up my fancy new Black MacBook and went through the migration process of transfering everything from my "old" PowerMac G4.
A couple questions (that I am sure have been answered elsewhere, but my searches didn't zero in on these specific questions):
[1] Rather than doing the migration and moving apps and everything from my old Mac, should I not do that to avoid adding a bunch of minor non-univeral applications (like customization applets)? I've already done it, so if I found out it was a bad idea, I can always start over.
[2] How do I tell if a particuar app I am running is Universal?
Thanks!
A couple questions (that I am sure have been answered elsewhere, but my searches didn't zero in on these specific questions):
[1] Rather than doing the migration and moving apps and everything from my old Mac, should I not do that to avoid adding a bunch of minor non-univeral applications (like customization applets)? I've already done it, so if I found out it was a bad idea, I can always start over.
[2] How do I tell if a particuar app I am running is Universal?
Thanks!
Comments
Go down the list and replace any that have UB's available.
Pretty easy. Mine is cluttered with 30 or so PowerPC entries for the MS Office Suite and Adobe CS suite, other than that I'm looking pretty good.
One minor gotcha I didn't quite expect... Firefox. I use Firefox, and the version of Firefox I had on my PB, 1.5.0.3, was supposed to be Universal Binary (UB), but it was running awfully slowly, and wouldn't run Java applets.
As it turns out, what mattered wasn't which version of Firefox I'd been automatically updated to over time, but which version I'd originally installed -- 1.5.0.0, from before Firefox became a UB application.
The automated update process built into Firefox only kept my original installation up-to-date with PPC code, and never caused my Firefox app to become UB. A fresh install from a fresh 1.5.0.3 download fixed everything -- showing that not all Firefox versions 1.5.0.3 are created equal.
Originally posted by shetline
One minor gotcha I didn't quite expect... Firefox. I use Firefox, and the version of Firefox I had on my PB, 1.5.0.3, was supposed to be Universal Binary (UB), but it was running awfully slowly, and wouldn't run Java applets.
As it turns out, what mattered wasn't which version of Firefox I'd been automatically updated to over time, but which version I'd originally installed -- 1.5.0.0, from before Firefox became a UB application.
The automated update process built into Firefox only kept my original installation up-to-date with PPC code, and never caused my Firefox app to become UB. A fresh install from a fresh 1.5.0.3 download fixed everything -- showing that not all Firefox versions 1.5.0.3 are created equal.
Exact same issue for me -- Firefox was running as a PowerPC app until I reinstalled it...