10.4: Quickly determine which active apps are universal
Dec 05, '06 07:30:04AM • Contributed by: ryebrye
Dec 05, '06 07:30:04AM • Contributed by: ryebrye
There are lots of ways to determine if an application is capable of running natively on an Intel machine -- but this way is an easy way to check if an application you already have installed is a Universal binary (or an Intel-only program) or not.
Using the Activity Monitor (which is installed in /Applications -> Utilities by default), you can quickly tell which of the active applications are running natively on Intel and which ones are running using Rosetta. Open Activity Monitor and scroll the window over until you can see the Kind column, and you will see it lists either Intel or PowerPC.
You can even click on the Kind header and have it sort the list to make PowerPC or Intel processes come to the top.
[robg adds: This was mentioned in the comments to this hint, but I felt it was worth its own entry in the tips database.]
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