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Line 130: * July 5, 2006: Apple announced a special educational configuration of the [[iMac]], replacing the old [[PowerPC G4\|G4]] [[eMac]]. * August 7, 2006: "Transition Complete" - Apple announced the Intel-based [[Mac Pro]] and [[Xserve]], replacing the [[Power Mac G5]] and Xserve G5, at the [[Worldwide Developers Conference]]; both use the Xeon 5100 series ("[[Woodcrest (microprocessor)\|Woodcrest]]") processors.<ref name="MacTransitionComplete" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> * October 26, 2007: Apple shipped [[Mac OS X Leopard\|Mac OS X 10.5]] "Leopard", the final release with PowerPC support. Macs using a [[PowerPC 7xx\|G3]] processor cannot boot this operating system as the backwards ~~compatiblity~~compatibility with them have been removed, only [[PowerPC G4\|G4]] and [[PowerPC 970\|G5]] processors with a minimum 867 MHz clock speed are supported. As the final PowerPC release, it is also the only one to omit the [[Classic environment]], ending Apple's support of software for the [[classic Mac OS]]. * August 28, 2009: Apple shipped Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" exclusively for Intel Macs. PowerPC Macs cannot boot this OS as the backwards ~~compatiblity~~compatibility with them have been removed. This is also the final release with Rosetta, allowing PowerPC software to run on an Intel Mac. * March 1, 2011: The beta version of the then-upcoming [[Mac OS X Lion]] dropped "Rosetta" and lost the ability to run PowerPC based software.<ref>{{cite web\|website=[[MacWorld]]\|date=March 1, 2011\|url=https://www.macworld.com/article/669343/no-java-rosetta-or-front-row-in-lion.html\|title=No Java, Rosetta, or Front Row in Lion\|first=Ashleigh\|last=Macro\|access-date=August 22, 2022\|archive-date=August 22, 2022\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220822062008/https://www.macworld.com/article/669343/no-java-rosetta-or-front-row-in-lion.html\|url-status=live}}</ref> * June 23, 2011: Support for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard came to a end, formally ending Apple's support of PowerPC on Mac OS X.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244852/Apple_signals_end_to_OS_X_Snow_Leopard_support\|title=Apple signals end to OS X Snow Leopard support\|quote=Apple provided the final update to Leopard in June 2011\|first=Gregg \|last=Keizer\|date=December 17, 2013\|website=[[Computerworld]]\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407021432/http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244852/Apple_signals_end_to_OS_X_Snow_Leopard_support\|archive-date=April 7, 2014\|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246609/Apple_retires_Snow_Leopard_from_support_leaves_1_in_5_Macs_vulnerable_to_attacks \|title=Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 1 in 5 Macs vulnerable to attacks \|first=Gregg \|last=Keizer \|date= February 26, 2014 \|website=[[Computerworld]] \|access-date=2014-05-09 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528150522/http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246609/Apple_retires_Snow_Leopard_from_support_leaves_1_in_5_Macs_vulnerable_to_attacks \|archive-date=May 28, 2014 \|df=mdy-all }} See the graph picture on the web</ref>

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