" I was just wondering whether any readers have managed to test the functionality of existing PowerPC-native printer and scanner drivers (Firewire & USB) when used in conjunction with the new iMac Core Duo - i.e. emulated/translated using Rosetta.
Thanks ...
-Brera "

Here's the first 2 replies to this post:

" Mike, This is from an Apple training course in reference to the new iMac Core Duo machine.
-Mike Cascioli
Apple Certified Desktop Technician
Mac Business Solutions,Inc.

"Will printers/scanners/misc. devices work?
Nearly every printer driver, plus many more, that shipped with Tiger is included in Mac OS X for Intel as a universal binary.

If you only have a PPC printer driver, it should run in Rosetta.

For scanners and other devices, these likely will not work properly in Rosetta, customers should check with the vendor for a universal binary version of the driver/plug-in."

Another reader said:

" The installer ships with a whole bunch of printer drivers similar to the installer for PPC-only machines.
An EPSON Scanner Image Capture native driver is also installed by default. Image Capture application can be used to scan using older PPC-only TWAIN data sources either using the Image Capture UI or the TWAIN UI.
-Baskaran "

If any reader has an Intel CPU Mac has notes on working/not working printers and/or scanners let me know.

" here are some videos from my SE W600 cell phone of a 20" Intel iMac in the Apple store in South Coast Plaza today.
http://homepage.mac.com/gsf/tehsnappyiimac.3gp
http://homepage.mac.com/gsf/iimacbooting.3gp
of note: the thing went from Apple logo to first app running in less than 18 seconds. That pretty much beats the crap out of my DP G5.

there was no perceivable mouse lag when resizing the slashdot page. It was absolutely amazing.

On playback of MPEG-4 AVC (aka, h.264):
I played 4 different 1080p clips on the thing (obviously, none of them fit on the screen completely). 3 of 4 "1080p" clips played with absolutely no framerate loss at 24fps.

XMen 3, Cars, and that Jon Heder/David Spade movie all played their 1080p clips without incident... other than they didn't fit on the screen.

Some baseball movie didn't play well at all.. it was bad. I don't know what to say. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason why it kept dropping to 12 fps.

office ran as snappy as on my DP 1.8 G5....

Specs: Intel Core Duo 2.0GHz, 1 GB ram, 128 meg video card. (which i think is stock). cheers on a great website.
-Don "

(If you missed it, Yesterday's news had a link to a detailed review of the 17in Intel CPU iMac and performance test/comparisons of a 1.83GHz MacBook Pro.)

" Hi Mike, Apparently, Safari isn't a compatible browser for Apple's new Photocast with iPhoto '06 :-) (see pic attached). (he sent a screenshot showing a message in Safari saying "We're Sorry, the Browser you're using does not support the display of Photocasts... you can view the photos in this Photocast using Safari RSS included with Mac OS X Tiger v10.4 or later or other photo compatible RSS reader for Mac, Windows or other operating systems...")

I wonder what else isn't compatible yet! I'm running 10.4.4. on a dual 1.8Ghz G5, so Safari is v2.0.3 (417.8). Hysterical!
Also, if you have Aperture 1.0.1 with a ".vault" of your iPhoto '05 library, when you upgrade it refuses saying "you don't have enough permissions" so you have to unlock it and move it. Works fine after the upgrade.
Cheers mate. Bobbi "

"Freespace 2 released for OS X as freeware
... Just wanted to pass this off to you since this might be of interest to your readers, Freespace 2 (http://freespace2.com for game info) was released for Mac OS X as free ware:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28874

I downloaded it last night but I've yet to run it... just warn the readers that it's a 1.4GIGAbyte download!
Peace, Ralph M. "

" I don't know if you noticed it, but that ars technica article that you linked to (review of the Intel Core Duo iMac 17in model) mentions that the Intel iMac apparently supports 802.11a!
If so, you'd think that they would use it on the MacBook Pro too, one wonders why that hasn't been advertised... There's no mention of 802.11a support anywhere on Apple's site, as far as I can tell.
-Adem R. "

My guess would be it's not mentioned since Apple currently has no 802.11a Airport base station.

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