If you ’ve cause an Intel Mac , you know that you really want to have as many of your applications as possible Universal — that is , able to run run natively on Intel - based machine — rather than use Rosetta emulation . Rosetta is virtual , but much slower than native applications .
There are several way that you could check up on your applications to find which are Universal and which are not .
First , you’re able to open System Profiler ( in your Utilities pamphlet ) , select Applications in the Contents editorial , and see a list of all the lotion on your Mac . The Type pillar shows which are Universal and which are PowerPC only . This even register you which apps can run in Classic if you are running a PowerPC Mac .
But there are way to do this from Terminal as well .
Here ’s the code for a shell script that will calculate in your Applications folder and find not only which software have no Intel support , but which control some share that are not Intel - aboriginal . Where this playscript goes further than System Profiler is in finding parts of program that are not Intel - native , even if the applications themselves are .
One matter to mark : while this script is set to front in your Applications brochure , you could change that path ( in the line containingfind /Applications ) to another path if you stash away lotion in other locations . ( organization Profiler only check out your Applications pamphlet . ) You could also have it explore your entire Mac , using the path/ , but that would take much longer .
imitate and paste the above codification into either TextEdit or another text editor , then save the playscript somewhere in your route for comfortable access . After saving , heart-to-heart Terminal and do this : type
To run your script in the future , cdinto that directory again , then typecast
