Mac transition to Intel processors: Difference between revisions

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* 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 compatibility with them have been removed, only [[PowerPC G4|G4]] and [[PowerPC 970|G5]] processors with a minimum 867&nbsp;MHz clock speed are supported. AsAlthough theit finalruns on PowerPC releasemachines, it is also the only one to omitomits 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]] 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>