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, ...

For the last three years, we’ve engaged in some in-depth data analysis and tea-leaf reading to answer two questions about Apple’s support for older Macs that still use Intel chips. First, was Apple ...

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 ...

In a way, it's been public knowledge that Apple is tinkering with OS X on ARM since 2007. In fact, its best selling products run on ARM processors, so it makes a lot of sense that it would at least be ...