Why did Apple drop the IBM-backed PowerPC architecture and switch to Intel in 2005? Four years to the month, one person involved in the discussions between Apple and IBM offers some insight. Brooke ...

Four years since the great Intel transition for the Mac platform was revealed at WWDC 2005 (see above clip), Adobe has announced that future versions of Creative Suite will run only on Intel-based ...

If you have an old PowerPC Mac, you should probably make it its favorite dinner, throw an arm around its shoulder and – as you shed a single, silent tear – lead it round behind the back of the house.

CNET, on the fourth anniversary of the switch from PowerPC to Intel, interviewed an ex-IBMer who had been familiar with the IBM PowerPC-Apple relations at the time. He/She(/Papermaster?) had some ...

Motorola is producing samples of a 1.42GHz PowerPC processor, a chip that could find its way into Apple's high-end PowerBook laptop. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several ...

eWeek is reporting that IBM denies that Apple's PowerPC power-consumption concerns were valid: [IBM] could build PowerPC chips that satisfy the needs of the entire range of Apple's product lines, ...

Apple Computer's online store sold today what may have been its last single processor PowerPC-based Power Mac. After seeing ship times slip to 7 to 10 business days earlier this week, all mention of ...

I didn't really begin covering Apple hardware until the launch of the G4, when the platform wars really started getting vicious, and I didn't switch to the Mac until relatively recently (2001). This ...

Apple and IBM have a contract for at least 4 generations of the PowerPC processor over the next 5 years, sources tell AppleInsider. The first of these microprocessors is the current PowerPC 970, which ...

Apple Computer appears poised to boost its Power Mac line in what could be a much-needed overhaul of its high-end desktops. Apple is preparing to introduce a new line of machines that are built around ...

The previous installment in this series took us from the rise of the PowerPC line into the line’s heyday as a leader in the RISC workstation market. During the reign of the PowerPC 600 series, Apple ...

Motorola on Monday announced a faster PowerPC chip that could be used in speedier Apple Computer laptops. Motorola said it is now producing samples of a 1.42GHz PowerPC processor, a chip analysts say ...