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jzzskijj on Oct 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?

Apple ran PowerPC apps on Intel processors. The real answer is that they don't want them to.

Rosetta is neither included nor supported in Mac OS X v10.7 "Lion" or later. Therefore, with Lion and later releases, the current Macintosh platform does not support PowerPC applications.

nwh on Oct 21, 2013 [–]

They don't need to. The transition is complete, any many apps had Universal binaries that ran seamlessly on both platforms.

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