All Mac OS 9 computers used PowerPC CPUs, which were a result of a collaboration between Apple, IBM, and Motorola. IBM's PowerPC 601 CPU - the first PowerPC CPU used in Macs.

Apple's PowerPC to Intel pipeline "We plan to continue to support and release new versions of macOS for Intel-based Macs for years to come," said Cook at the Apple Silicon announcement in June 2020.

If you don’t, Apple will do it for you. Snow Leopard is Intel-only, and as such any PowerPC Macs will be stuck with the current version of Leopard.

If you bought a Mac any time between 2016 and 2020, you're generally settling for fewer years of software updates than you would have gotten in the recent past. If you bought a Mac released in 2020, ...

The Mac Mini's specifications are similar to those of a PowerBook that's also in the EDN computer pool, giving credence to the oft-touted observation that (simplistically speaking) Apple repackaged an ...

The clock keeps ticking for Macs based on PowerPC processors as Apple's recently released iLife '11 content-creation suite is now Intel-only.

The PowerPC 980 Processor is a rumored chip to be coming from IBM as a followup to the PowerPC 970. Just as the PowerPC 970 is based on the Power4 ...

The emulator offers emulation for various PowerPC operating systems including Mac OS X 10.3 . According to reader reports, the application does appear to work, but is slow ...

There are many reasons why you wouldn't want to browse 2021's Internet on a PowerPC Mac, even with a fully supported browser. G4 and G5 processors are an order of magnitude slower than modern ...

Apple will boost its Power Mac line in what could be a much-needed overhaul of its high-end desktops. It won't erase the 'gigahertz gap' but it should narrow the chasm.