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'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 ...

Apple’s next big cat spent the longest time on the prowl of any Mac OS X release to date. Tiger spent about two and a half years on the market and spanned the Mac’s transition from PowerPC to Intel ...

Mozilla this week said it's unlikely that the final version of Firefox 4 will run on older Macs equipped with PowerPC processors. "We are not likely to be supporting PowerPC," said Mike Beltzner, ...

Macintosh computers using Intel chips will be on the market by this time next year with all Apple Macs moved over to Intel chips by the end of 2007, Apple said Monday at its Worldwide Developer ...

When PowerPC Macs first came out, most applications — and even huge chunks of the Mac OS itself — weren’t PowerPC native. That meant those first PowerPC Macs were actually slower in practical use then ...

The growth of Mac OS’s market share stalled in October, just a month after a record increase, a research firm has reported. According to Net Applications, Apple Inc.’s operating system accounted for 6 ...

Developer Bryan Keller was curious whether an old version of Apple's Mac operating system was capable of running on the Nintendo Wii after seeing Windows NT ported to the gaming device, so he decided ...

Apple’s next big cat spent the longest time on the prowl of any Mac OS X release to date. Tiger spent about two and a half years on the market and spanned the Mac’s transition from PowerPC to Intel ...