light_painter

intel-macs-patch-problems-2

On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Steven H. Silberg wrote:

> With no access to Intel Apples and a limited (very limited) amount 

> of time until we install, I am hoping that your experiences can 

> help me decide if the minis will work or if I have to pester the 

> heck out of the curator to get older machines (which I originally 

I personally would not recommend using an intel mac with MaxMSP 4.5.X 

and Jitter 1.5.X. While essentially it works under Rosetta, the 

performance will not be very good (though probably faster than an 

800MHz G4), and you may have audio dropouts/glitches as the code is 

runtime compiled. However, perhaps once running for a while, these 

glitches would all stop after all relevant code has been runtime 

compiled. Might want to send this to the MaxMSP list, since this is 

more of an MSP issue. The main features which definitely doesn't work 

under Rosetta is mxj and mxj~, otherwise everything else I know of 

works (though much slower than native, and the potential audio 

Sounds like you can't yet use MaxMSP 4.6 or Jitter 1.6 Universal 

Binaries which are the native versions for MacTel, unless you find 

MacTel ports for all the objects you use. Even still, wouldn't rely 

on these for an installation as it is still in beta.

On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Steven H. Silberg wrote:
>
> With no access to Intel Apples and a limited (very limited) amount  
> of time until we install, I am hoping that your experiences can  
> help me decide if the minis will work or if I have to pester the  
> heck out of the curator to get older machines (which I originally  
> asked for).

I personally would not recommend using an intel mac with MaxMSP 4.5.X  
and Jitter 1.5.X. While essentially it works under Rosetta, the  
performance will not be very good (though probably faster than an  
800MHz G4), and you may have audio dropouts/glitches as the code is  
runtime compiled. However, perhaps once running for a while, these  
glitches would all stop after all relevant code has been runtime  
compiled. Might want to send this to the MaxMSP list, since this is  
more of an MSP issue. The main features which definitely doesn't work  
under Rosetta is mxj and mxj~, otherwise everything else I know of  
works (though much slower than native, and the potential audio  
dropouts mentioned)

Sounds like you can't yet use MaxMSP 4.6 or Jitter 1.6 Universal  
Binaries which are the native versions for MacTel, unless you find  
MacTel ports for all the objects you use. Even still, wouldn't rely  
on these for an installation as it is still in beta.

intel Macs - patch problems?