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jacobolus on Jan 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: iMac Pro's T2 chip

How long did it take them to drop support for PPC Macs in new OS versions? 6 years or something? Could be similar here.

saagarjha on Jan 5, 2018 [–]

The Intel transition was officially started with 10.4.4, IIRC, and the last version of Mac OS X that PowerPC Macs could run was Leopard. Mac OS X 10.7 dropped Rosetta, meaning all software had to be Intel-only. I know that by OS X all system binaries were Intel only, without a PowerPC slice.

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