SE Support for Intel-Powered Macintosh Computers

Apple's newest Macintosh computers have switched their hardware platform from PowerPC to Intel processors. Most current applications are not created to run natively on this new platform. To address this, Apple created their own application called Rosetta that runs in the background of all of their new Intel-based computers. According to Apple, "Rosetta dynamically translates most of your PowerPC-based applications to work with your Intel-based Mac."

To accommodate a wide range of hardware platforms, Read Naturally uses a database application and development software from third-party vendors. Until these vendors certify their products on Intel-based Macs, Read Naturally cannot officially support Read Naturally Software Edition (SE) running on this platform. Thankfully, at this time we have not experienced any problems running SE on Intel-based Macs. Apple also states that most PowerPC applications will run on an Intel-based Mac.

UPDATE (August 2007): The recently released SE Network Plus (version 2.1) supports universal binary and thus operates in native mode, bypassing the Rosetta emulator. SE Network Plus is fully compatible with Intel-powered Macs.