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 launched the original Mac mini 20 years ago today, kickstarting a trend of small but powerful computers. The Mac mini ...

Apple announced that it was switching off of the PowerPC chips and on to Intel chips. This move came with a lot of bonuses and few drawbacks. There is quite a bit of difference ...

Before the Mac Pro, Apple's flagship desktop towers had an even more authoritative name: Power Macintosh. First launched in 1994, the Power Macs were the first computers to use PowerPC ...

Since Apple switched to Intel chips in the mid-00s, the PowerPC chips from Motorola and the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that they had been using largely fell by the wayside.

Apple’s strict guidelines on the Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler play a significant role in this issue. The JIT compiler converts PowerPC-based code used by GameCube and Wii into a usable format for ...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Pro 19 years ago today at the 2006 Macworld Conference & Expo. Jobs unveiled the ‌MacBook Pro‌ as the first Mac notebook to transition from PowerPC ...

In 1994, Apple introduced the Power Macs, which used the higher-performance PowerPC chip designed by Apple, Motorola and IBM. Power Macs ran native PowerPC applications and emulated traditional ...

But Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said during the ... The original iMac was also referred to as iMac G3 because the device packed a 233MHz PowerPC G3 processor inside along with an ATI Rage IIc ...

Introduced in early 2006, the 32-bit Core Duo CPU was also the first x86 chip used in the Mac, as Apple transitioned from PowerPC to x86 (see MacBook Pro). Note that Core Duo and Core 2 Duo chips ...