Mac Specs: By Processor: Intel Core i7 Complete technical specifications for every Apple Mac using the Intel Core i7 processor are listed below for your convenience. For other processors, please refer to the main By Processor page. The Motorola 68020 was the first 32-bit Mac processor, first used on the Macintosh II.The 68020 had many improvements over the 68000, including an instruction cache, and was the first Mac processor to support a memory management unit, the Motorola 68851.

Mac Specs: By Processor: Intel Core i5 Complete technical specifications for every Apple Mac using the Intel Core i5 processor are listed below for your convenience. For other processors, please refer to the main By Processor page. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich today announced that its next-generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors and its 8th-generation Intel Core processors will feature redesigned components to protect.

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• • • Apple's Intel transition was the process of changing the (CPU) of from processors to processors. The transition became public knowledge at the 2005 (WWDC), when CEO made the announcement that the company would make a transition from the use of PowerPC supplied by (formerly ) and in its Macintosh computers, to processors designed and manufactured by Intel, a chief supplier for most of Apple's competitors. The transition marked the Macintosh platform's second migration to a new CPU architecture. The first was the switch from the (used since the original ) to the architecture. Apple's initial press release indicated the transition would begin by June 2006, and finish by the end of 2007, but it actually proceeded much more quickly. The first generation Intel-based Macintoshes were released in January 2006 with, and Steve Jobs announced the last models to switch in August 2006, with the available immediately and with the Intel available by October 2006.

The Xserve servers were available in December 2006. Apple released 'Snow Leopard' on August 28, 2009 as Intel-only, removing support for the PowerPC architecture. It is also the last Mac OS X version that supports PowerPC based applications, as 'Lion' dropped support for. • • • • June 6, 2005: Apple announces its plans to switch to Intel processors at the and released a Developer Transition System, a PC running an Intel build of Mac OS X 10.4.1 with a [ ] in a modified case, to all Select and Premier members of the Apple Developer Connection at a price of $999. • January 10, 2006: Jobs announces the first two computers in this series, the 15' and line, both using an chip and offers to trade in the Developer Transition Kits for iMacs. • February 28, 2006: Jobs announces that the now also comes with an chip, in either the Solo or Duo varieties. • April 5, 2006: Apple announced the release of, which allowed users of Intel-based Macs to run (and later versions of Boot Camp allow later versions of Windows).

• April 24, 2006: Apple announces the 17' MacBook Pro, replacing the 17'. • April 27, 2006: Intel announces that processors with the would be released months sooner than previously thought. • May 16, 2006: Apple announces the 13', replacing both the line and the 12' PowerBook.

• June 26, 2006: Intel announces the server/workstation CPU. • July 5, 2006: Apple announces a special educational configuration of the, replacing the old. • August 7, 2006: 'Transition Complete' - Apple announces the Intel-based and, replacing the and Xserve G5, at the; both use the Xeon 5100 series (') processors. [ ] • October 26, 2007: Apple ships 'Leopard', the final release with PowerPC support.

Macs using a processor cannot boot this operating system, as only and processors with a minimum 867 MHz clock speed are supported. • August 28, 2009: Apple ships Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' exclusively for Intel Macs. PowerPC Macs cannot boot this OS. This is also the final release with Rosetta, allowing PowerPC software to run on an Intel Mac. • March 1, 2011: The beta version of the then-upcoming drops 'Rosetta' and will not be able to run PowerPC based software. • July 20, 2011: The release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion formally ends Apple's support of PowerPC-based software.

• August 7, 2011: PowerPC hardware reaches 'vintage' status having been discontinued five years earlier, ending most of Apple's service and parts support for PowerPC hardware. • June 11, 2012: Apple releases iTunes 10.6.3, their last application with support for PowerPC processors. • August 7, 2013: PowerPC hardware reaches 'obsolete' status having been discontinued seven years prior, ending all of Apple's service and parts support for PowerPC hardware. Product renaming [ ] The names of some of Apple's desktop and laptop product lines changed between the PowerPC version and the corresponding Intel version. Most notably, the word 'Power' was dropped from all product lines. During the Keynote address at Macworld in 2006, where the first Intel-based Macs, the iMac and MacBook Pro, were announced, Steve Jobs remarked that the new naming schemes for their products reflected their desire to have 'Mac' in the name of all of their computers, and because they were 'done with power.'