e30 – Ten Years of Intel Macs

We celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first Intel-based Macs, which were released in January of 2006. Always on the quest for more performance per watt, we contemplate Apple's big hardware and software transitions of the past, present, and even the future!

We celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first Intel-based Macs, which were released in January of 2006. Always on the quest for more performance per watt, we contemplate Apple's big hardware and software transitions of the past, present, and even the future!

Followup
Panic's boxed software: MacMP3
512 Pixels: iLife and iWork boxes
keyboard followup: Palm OS AlphaSmart Dana
Earlier transitions
68K to PPC
Motorola 68000 series processors
PowerPC
plans to introduce PowerPC on the Mac's 10th birthday
OS 9 to OS X
OS 9 funeral keynote

PowerPC to Intel
Wall Street Journal's scoop
WWDC 2005 keynote
Intel Developer Transition Kit
Apple developer site [WayBack]
Panic's fan prank
Macworld Expo 2006 keynote
One more thing: the MacBook Pro
Tiger on Intel, the "extra" OS X release
Metrowerks CodeWarrior
Xcode 2 [WayBack]
Rosetta [WayBack]
Windows on Apple hardware
Boot Camp [WayBack]
SMC
Hackintoshes
Current and future transitions
Objective C to Swift
Intel to ARM?
A and S series