Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Jun 2008 23:37 UTC
Apple We're continuing our detailed coverage of all the bits and pieces dripping from the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Fransisco. As you all might recall, Apple bought a chip company called P.A. Semi not too long ago, a maker of low-power PowerPC chips, fuelling rumours Apple might use them in its own products such as the iPhone and iPod. This has now been confirmed by His Steveness himself.
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os x ppc
by thebackwash on Thu 12th Jun 2008 03:59 UTC
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I'm willing to bet that Apple will still maintain a PPC port of the desktop version of OS X seeing as they now maintain OS X for 3 architectures, not counting different bit counts (or whatever the technically inclined call it ;) ). Keeping the OS ported to multiple architectures should yield a leaner, higher-quality codebase, or so the theory goes.