20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again
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- macOS 27 will still support some Intel Macs with security and Safari updates for two more years.
- macOS 26 marks the final chapter for Intel Macs, with future updates seen as a coda.
- The article looks back at the history of Intel Macs, starting with 'Project Marklar' in 2000.
- An Apple engineer proposed running Mac OS X on Intel processors as a side project.
- Early Macs used PowerPC processors, making the Intel version initially unnecessary.