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One might want to install it on an external disk that you move between machines and use as boot device. I think that’s quite a corner-case. Not at all; did all
by alwillis 6y ago
One might want to install it on an external disk that you move between machines and use as boot device.
I think that’s quite a corner-case.
Not at all; did all the time when the PowerPC to Intel transition happened.
If you have an Intel Mac and wanted to use your universal apps on a friend’s M1 Mac mini with your operating system configured the way you like it, that's by far the easiest way to go.
I upgrade to the universal versions of Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher earlier today; if I had to do something complex and could use an M1 Mac, that's exactly what I'd do.
- wiredfool 6y agoI did that, 10.5 IIRC. For some reason, I could only install on my Intel iMac, but I wanted to resurrect a PPC mini that had died. Oddly, the imac is long gone, but the mini can still run ubuntu, and is still (somewhat) useful for testing bigendian bugs. It's slower than a raspberry pi of a few years back.