Don’t use Rosetta if you don’t have to
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Here’s a tip for Intel Mac users:
Rosetta is the invisible software that makes your PowerPC applications run on Intel Macs. It makes it possible to run applications like Excel and Photoshop that aren’t yet available as Universal binaries. But if you’re using an old PowerPC version of an application when a Universal binary is available, you may be missing out on some performance.
To check this, open Activity Monitor in your Applications Utilities folder. Then under the View menu, click Columns and choose “Kind”. The “Kind” column shows what type of processor each application was built for. For all of the “PowerPC” applications you find (and it will only show the ones that are currently running), you should find out if a Universal binary is available and upgrade to it. Universal binaries will run much faster.
Via: Windley.com
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:58 pm
You can also check this out with System Profiler, for every single one of your applications at once. It will even show the ones you aren’t running. I found the tip here: http://www.macobserver.com/tip/2006/01/27.2.shtml
I was shocked to see how many apps I have that are still PowerPC.