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!

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