[Design] PPC versus Intel Mac

John Anderson john at osafoundation.org
Thu Feb 22 12:46:33 PST 2007


Most Mactintosh applications ship universal binaries to avoid this 
confusion. We could do the same.

John

Mimi Yin wrote:
> I'm concerned about our usage of PPC versus Intel to differentiate 
> between the different Chandler builds users need to download. A few 
> questions come to mind:
>
> 1. Do users know that PPC versus Intel are essentially 2 different 
> platforms?
> 2. Are users familiar with the terminology: PPC versus Intel?
>
> Are there other words we can use instead of PPC versus Intel?
>
> MacBook versus iBook and and PowerBook
> ...But what about desktop machines?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Mimi
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