Comments on: Confirmed – Mac OSX 10.6 runs on Intel only http://www.gaj-it.com/10424/confirmed-mac-osx-106-runs-on-intel-only/ Bringing you the latest gadget & tech news, how-to's, reviews and shopping deals. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:50:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LeeMoh http://www.gaj-it.com/10424/confirmed-mac-osx-106-runs-on-intel-only/comment-page-1/#comment-26177 LeeMoh Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:00:41 +0000 http://www.gaj-it.com/?p=10424#comment-26177 I wonder how Mac fanatic people are receiving this by now. Apple totally gave up to the IBM compatible platform for which Intel develops its processors. And we all know it is mainly a PC platform. This is another shift from Apple toward a point at which it will totally convert to a software developer, exactly like its definite competitor, Microsoft. With Apple's giving up its hardware development to PC hardware companies, I believe the day PCs will run Mac OS officially will not be so far from now. I wonder how Mac fanatic people are receiving this by now.

Apple totally gave up to the IBM compatible platform for which Intel develops its processors. And we all know it is mainly a PC platform.

This is another shift from Apple toward a point at which it will totally convert to a software developer, exactly like its definite competitor, Microsoft.

With Apple’s giving up its hardware development to PC hardware companies, I believe the day PCs will run Mac OS officially will not be so far from now.

]]> By: GarySims http://www.gaj-it.com/10424/confirmed-mac-osx-106-runs-on-intel-only/comment-page-1/#comment-26176 GarySims Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:27:09 +0000 http://www.gaj-it.com/?p=10424#comment-26176 I think when Leopard came out it was generally understood that it would be the last version of OS X that supported the PowerPC Macs. Having said that PowerPC based Mac owners don't need to despair as applications with Leopard support will be around for a while. I just installed Safari 4 on mu OS X Tiger (10.4) 450Mhz PowerPC Mac. Works fine. Since Snow Leopard is Intel only the binaries that ship with it don't have to be universal which is why an install of Snow Leopard gains 6GB of disk space... All the PowerPC code has been stripped out! I think when Leopard came out it was generally understood that it would be the last version of OS X that supported the PowerPC Macs. Having said that PowerPC based Mac owners don’t need to despair as applications with Leopard support will be around for a while. I just installed Safari 4 on mu OS X Tiger (10.4) 450Mhz PowerPC Mac. Works fine.

Since Snow Leopard is Intel only the binaries that ship with it don’t have to be universal which is why an install of Snow Leopard gains 6GB of disk space… All the PowerPC code has been stripped out!

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