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Apple Officially Puts PowerPC Behind Them With Snow Leopard

Written on June 10, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 10 people have commented

One detail that escaped mention during the keynote presentation at Apple’s WWDC earlier this week likely does not sit well with users still clutching their beloved G4 machines, namely that OS X 10.6, also know as Snow Leopard, will finally drop PowerPC support and only run on Intel Macs. It’s unfortunate for people attached to [...]

Is PowerPC Doomed? Nahhhh

Written on September 30, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 9 people have commented

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Noted blogger and podcaster Daniel Eran Dilger writes today at Roughly Drafted on Leopard and the History and Future of Mac OS X on PowerPC.
For those of you, like our own Stephanie Guertin, who are running on older PPC systems, Dilger lays out why support for the PowerPC isn’t going away [...]