June 6, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel
Update: 2025-06-06
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</noscript><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">June 6, 2011 Steve Jobs gave his last keynote for Apple</figcaption></figure>2005 – Steve Jobs spoke in front of the masses at the WWDC announcing that Apple will switch their processors from PowerPC to Intel. He then showed off the Mac OS X running on aPentium 4 CPU. The reasoning was that PowerPC chips took too much power to run and also ran hotter than an Intel chip.
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