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Guy Harris (talk | contribs) "Denied from" makes no sense; a request or a claim or an assertion can be "denied", but this isn't any of those, it's a piece of software. If you don't like "dropped", try "removed", because that's what happened. |
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===Ongoing support for PowerPC following transition===
[[Mac OS X Snow Leopard|Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)]], released in August 2009, was the first version of Mac OS X (later [[macOS]]) to require a Mac with an Intel processor, ending operating system support for Power PC Macs three years after the transition was complete.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Installation and Setup Guide |url=https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1172/en_US/Snow_Leopard_Installation_Instructions.pdf |website=[[Apple Inc.]] |access-date=25 June 2020 |date=2009 |quote=To upgrade to Snow Leopard or install Snow Leopard for the first time, you must have a Mac with: An Intel processor |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127111822/https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1172/en_US/Snow_Leopard_Installation_Instructions.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Apple to Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28 |url=https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2009/08/24Apple-to-Ship-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-on-August-28/ |website=[[Apple Inc.]] |access-date=25 June 2020 |date=24 August 2009 |archive-date=December 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209130359/https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2009/08/24Apple-to-Ship-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-on-August-28/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Support for Rosetta was
Apple has a policy of placing products that have not been sold for more than five years, but less than seven years, as "vintage", meaning hardware services from Apple Stores and service providers are subject to availability of inventory, or as required by law. A product is considered obsolete after it has not been sold for more than seven years, and are not eligible for hardware support.<ref name="AppleVintageObsolete">{{cite web |title=Vintage and obsolete products |url=https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624 |website=[[Apple Inc.]] |access-date=25 June 2020 |archive-date=November 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116063147/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624 |url-status=live }}</ref> All PowerPC-based Macs were obsolete by 2013.
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* 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 compatibility with them have been removed, only [[PowerPC G4|G4]] and [[PowerPC 970|G5]] processors with a minimum 867 MHz clock speed are supported. Although it runs on PowerPC machines, it omits 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 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]]
* 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>
* July 20, 2011: The release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion formally ended Apple's support of PowerPC-based software.
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