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At 2003's WWDC keynote address, Jobs unveiled a Power Mac with a processor from IBM's PowerPC G5 product line, [6] the first personal computer to feature a 64-bit processor. [ 6 ] He promised a 3 GHz Power Mac G5 within 12 months, but never released such a product. [ 6 ]
32-bit powerpc a released port since potato [21] 64-bit big-endian ppc64 [22] in mostly stalled development; 64-bit little-endian ppc64le a released port since jessie; Fedora; Gentoo Linux, with 32-bit ppc releases and 64-bit ppc64 releases [23] MintPPC, support for Old World and New World 32/64-bit Macs based on Linux Mint LXDE and Debian [24]
Cell BE, 64-bit PPE-core, 2 way multithreading, VMX, 512 kB L2 cache, 8x SPE, 8x 256 kB Local Store memory, 3.2 GHz, follows the PowerPC 2.02 ISA Cell BE 65 nm, same as above but manufactured on a 65 nm process
It was the first PowerBook series to use a Motorola 68LC040 CPU (simultaneous with Duo 280) and be upgradeable to the PowerPC architecture via a swap-out CPU daughter card (with the PowerPC and 68040 upgrades for sale), use 9.5-inch displays, 16-bit stereo sound with stereo speakers, have an expansion bay, PC Card capability, two battery bays ...
The PowerPC 970 ("G5") was the first 64-bit Mac processor. The PowerPC 970MP was the first dual-core Mac processor and the first to be found in a quad-core configuration. It was also the first Mac processor with partitioning and virtualization capabilities. Apple only used three variants of the G5, and soon moved entirely onto Intel architecture.
It also required an IEC 60320 C19 power connector that was more common on rackmounted server hardware, instead of the industry-standard C13 connector used with personal computers. The official end to the Power Macintosh line came at the 2006 Worldwide Developers Conference, where Phil Schiller introduced its replacement, the Mac Pro .
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With the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and before that, since the move to 64-bit architectures in general, some software publishers such as Mozilla [1] have used the term "universal" to refer to a fat binary that includes builds for both i386 (32-bit Intel) and x86_64 systems. The same mechanism that is used to select between the PowerPC or ...