Snow Leopard officially puts PowerPC Macs on endangered species list

Tim Stevens
T. Stevens|06.10.09

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Tim Stevens
T. Stevens
June 10, 2009 11:06 AM
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Snow Leopard officially puts PowerPC Macs on endangered species list
Snow Leopard officially puts PowerPC Macs on endangered species list
It was just a day short of a year ago that we first got a bad feeling Snow Leopard was going to be end of the road for the PowerPC crowd. Now we know the truth, with Apple confirming Mac OS X version 10.6 will require Intel processors, cutting the cord on that rich lineage of alternative CPU support. From here on out it's Intel or bust -- until Apple finds a new silicon suitor it prefers, anyway.

[Via MacRumors]
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