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June 6, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel

June 6, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel

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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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June 6, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel

June 6, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine