... And although our Apple. Meanwhile, Apple is using Mac OS X on the Intel platform changing, but also the PPC community is not (yet) off. While this is "nice" meant and from the perspective of Apple's very important, but Intel-based Mac users as something "disadvantage".

More recently, more and more about Mac OS X 10.6 spoken, especially that it is a real slimming has undergone. Who now do not wait, you can already up on new features into their own hands. There are two paths, one is the command "strip" in the console or for those who were not so sure are a lot of work and also want to save, there is a great tool, namely Xslimmer.

What is happening now? Take for example Adobe Photoshop CS3. The Binary (plus libraries) has about 290MB. Leaving now Xslimmer drüber run it scans the binary (program) to symbols used exclusively for the PPC platform are in the program. You can also right next to each program can see that there is a globe, this is the symbol for "universal binary" from Apple. This means that this program both on Intel as well as on the PPC platform will run.

Leaving now Xslimmer via PhotoShop CS3 run reduces the size of the program of about 290MB to about 120MB. It saves so OVER 50%! And it is an Intel-only binary converted.

The advantage here is that the programs now considerably less space to take it that really unnecessary code was removed, the programs also partially stable can run.

Thus! 10.6 no longer wait, but even start All figures here are not guaranteed!

Have fun!