The only problem: Intel-based hardware arrived before many programs had been rewritten for compatibility with the new processors. Apple unveiled its first Intel-based hardware offerings at last January’s Macworld Expo, well ahead of schedule. Macworld Lab tests found improvements in the performance of some non-Intel-native apps on systems running September’s OS X update-with some systems seeing their performance jump by more than 30 percent. But Mac users running these and other programs via Apple’s Rosetta emulation technology on their Intel-based Macs have gotten a significant performance boost from
Intel-native versions of Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office are still a ways off.
