Show notes
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
- OS 9 to OS X
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
- 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?