To be quite fair to Apple, they never promised miracles with Rosetta, the PowerPC emulation environment for MacIntels. You’d be able to run many of your legacy applications with decent performance, but you really wanted your favorite applications to be produced in Universal form.
When the tech sites began to test the first round of Intel-based [...]

In the past, processor emulation has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Consider Microsoft’s Virtual PC for the Mac, which epitomizes languid performance. But if you think it’s bad, try some of the other PC emulators, even the ones that are loudly proclaimed as Universal binaries fully compatible with MacIntels. Of course, way back [...]

It doesn’t take any special abilities to speculate that Mac developers around the world are busy this holiday season. No, not just buying presents for family and friends, but working on updates for their software to get ready for the MacIntel era.
In case you’ve tuned in late, in order to be compatible with both PowerPC [...]