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 ...

These days, the Mac mini is one of the best Macs money can buy, and arguably the best in terms of value for money. It packs tremendous power into its pint-sized frame, blowing away its rivals and ...

As the Intel Mac era has wound down over the last couple of years, we’ve been painstakingly tracking the amount of software support that each outgoing model is getting. We did this to establish, with ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Mac OS X includes features that make it a target for malware, and the Intel-based Macs may be even more vulnerable than their PowerPC predecessors, said Kevin Finisterre, a security researcher who ...