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I seem to recall the PPC -> Intel transition going rather smoothly, what with Rosetta instruction translation and Universal/Fat binaries. It took them about 9 m

I seem to recall the PPC -> Intel transition going rather smoothly, what with Rosetta instruction translation and Universal/Fat binaries. It took them about 9 months between shipping the first and final Intel Macs, and most apps were Universal within the first year (Photoshop and Office being the most notable, albeit gigantic, holdouts).

chc 16y ago
I would go so far as to say it was more painful for the last PPC buyers than it was for the first Intel buyers.
mmphosis 16y ago
I think it went a little more smoothly than the Motorola 680x0 -> PowerPC transition. Notice the ppc and i386 directories that were in Mac OS X from the get go.