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June 6, 2005: Apple announced its plans to switch to Intel processors at the Worldwide Developer Conference and released a Developer Transition System, a PC running an Intel build of Mac OS X 10.4.1 in a modified Power Mac G5 case, to all Select and Premier members of the Apple Developer Connection at a price of $999. [1] [50]
All three major seventh-generation game consoles contain PowerPC-based processors. Sony's PlayStation 3 console, released in November 2006, contains a Cell processor, including a 3.2 GHz PowerPC control processor and eight closely threaded DSP-like accelerator processors, seven active and one spare; Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, released in 2005, includes a 3.2 GHz custom IBM PowerPC chip with ...
Advanced power management (APM) is a technical standard for power management developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 [1] which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.
The Power Mac introduced a top clock speed of 2.5 GHz while liquid-cooled (eventually reaching as high as 2.7 GHz in April 2005). The iMac ran the front side bus at a third of the clock speed. Market demand was intense for a faster laptop CPU than the G4, but Apple never delivered a G5 series CPU in PowerBook laptops. The original 970 uses far ...
Power Computing Corporation (often referred to as Power Computing) was the first company selected by Apple Inc to create Macintosh-compatible computers ("Mac clones"). Stephen “Steve” Kahng, a computer engineer best known for his design of the Leading Edge Model D , founded the company in November 1993.
PowerPC G4 is a designation formerly used by Apple to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors.Apple has applied this name to various (though closely related) processor models from Freescale, a former part of Motorola.
The low power requirements and small size made the processors ideal for laptops and the name lived out its last days at Apple in the iBook. The 7xx family is also widely used in embedded devices like printers, routers, storage devices, spacecraft, [ 1 ] and video game consoles.
Power Mac G4 Cube [i] 450–500 100 1024 — 1 April 2001 July 2001 PowerPC 7441: eMac (2002) 700–800 100 256 — 1 April 2002 May 2003 PowerPC 7445: eMac (2003) 800–1000 133 256 — 1 May 2003 April 2004 PowerPC 7450: Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver) 667–867 133 256–1024 0–2 1–2 January 2001 January 2002 ...