Why did Apple drop the IBM-backed PowerPC architecture and switch to Intel in 2005? Four years to the month, one person involved in the discussions between Apple and IBM offers some insight.

During the reign of the PowerPC 600 series, Apple could reasonably boast that its hardware was second to none in the PC world. But shortly after the introduction of the G3, Apple lost its edge and ...

Nearly four years ago, developer Cyan reimagined the legendary Myst for Apple Silicon, and now it’s giving the same treatment ...

The final version of Mac OS 9 was 9.2.2. which shipped in late 1999. All Mac OS 9 computers used PowerPC CPUs, which were a result of a collaboration between Apple, IBM, and Motorola. Before Mac ...

With the pandemic shutting down live events, Apple went fully virtual and gave us a WWDC like no other. Craig Federighi ...

Apple’s Mac operating system has undergone many sizeable changes over the years. Here’s every version in order, from the first edition in 2000 to the present.

Over Apple’s decades-long history, they have been quick to adapt to new processor technology when they see an opportunity. Their switch from PowerPC to Intel in the early 2000s made Apple ...

Apple’s first computers ran on Motorola processors, but the company decided to migrate to the new PowerPC platform in 1994. While this brought benefits at the time, the PowerPC processors weren ...

In 2005, Apple announced that it would switch from PowerPC processors to Intel. At the time, Intel had much faster and more efficient processors than PowerPC, which allowed Apple to create more ...

The same is true for the Wii with its PowerPC CPU and running Mac OS 9 for PowerPC on it. In order to make this work, a workaround is employed, which uses the fossilized Mac-on-Linux project to ...