For you programmers, how much work will it take for Berkeley to get a version ready for the new Intel based Macs? Also, can we expect the crunch times on these machines to be about the same as a comparable Core Duo PC running Windows?

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Should be able to compile without much difficulty but might take someone with access to an Intel machine to tweak it right. Not sure what optimizations are available but should be the usual SSE, SSE2 and SSE3. Intel just released some additional tools to developers so someone should be able to do it.

Don't know when Berkeley might create an "official" client for it though. In theory, they should be able to compile a "universal" binary that will run on Power PC and Intel using Apple's and Intel's current developer tools so that they only have to maintain one version. Third parties could then tweak the client and the apps for maximum performance.

Even without, BOINC should run under Rosetta (the Mac software not the project) but may be a bit slower.

Hope so anyway, I want to get one of the new dual core Intel iMacs for my "photo" machine.

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Performance will be about the same. Assuming all other things being equal.

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