Intel in Macs (2007)

&quot;On the very day the company officially announced its first Intel-based product, Apple&#x27;s stock price closed at $80.86&quot;<p>How cool!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20060110&#x2F;1818234_F.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20060110&#x2F;1818234_F.shtml</a>

I have some big nostalgia for that hero-banner image -- the pretty blue swooshes. I remember trying to replicate that style, watching hours of 3:2 480p tutorials in Paint.NET and Photoshop CS, so I could have the coolest signature in whatever php web forum I was haunting at the time...

Just to go a little further back, a contemporary TidBits article about the original PPC Macs. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidbits.com&#x2F;1994&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;the-power-macintosh-picture&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidbits.com&#x2F;1994&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;the-power-macintosh-picture&#x2F;</a>

Haha, I&#x27;d be more nostalgic if I hadn&#x27;t bought a 68000-based Mac just before the announcement that Apple was transitioning away from Motorola in the 90’s. Same baloney about releasing additional (Motorola-then &#x2F; Intel-now) models during the transition. It very quickly became an expensive boat-anchor. I think I was still paying on the loan I&#x27;d gotten it since I was a poor college student working auto repair to make ends meet.<p>I&#x27;m excited about the move to the new processor. Also super glad my 2013 MBP has had a good run. It&#x27;s still totally adequate. &#x27;Course that&#x27;s a problem isn&#x27;t it?<p>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how the year turns out for Apple - seems like you&#x27;d be nuts to buy an Intel Mac now, right?

Ha, this is cute :) Looks like the Rosetta link still works too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;sg&#x2F;rosetta&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;sg&#x2F;rosetta&#x2F;</a>. Never really got to try it much, as I didn&#x27;t really use Macs back then, although I&#x27;m curious if anyone from that time knows what the &quot;oah&quot; name stood for.

My very first Mac was the very first Intel Mac Mini, I remember at the time disputing getting a PPC Mac Mini instead for software compatibility. I&#x27;m glad I didn&#x27;t. I was a long time Windows fanboy and that Mac Mini converted me.<p>That machine is still kicking, my dad was using it for web browsing until earlier this year. Firefox was for a long time the only modern browser he could use, and then even that stopped supporting 32 bit Macs.

&quot;Transition accomplished&quot;<p>I miss the days when Apple&#x27;s taglines were always witty (they&#x27;re still sometimes witty, but not consistently so.)

From the days when 2 cores on a chip was impressive:) (And it <i>was</i>!)

Back in the days when Macs were #1 and the iPhone was a figment of Steve&#x27;s imagination.

So what is the future of Hackintosh?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20200709070612&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;sg&#x2F;intel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20200709070612&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple...</a>

There seems to be quite a few of those remnants on the apple.com site, every few months I feel like I see one of these links for old school content and themes :)

This was a real blast from the past. I got my first Mac a little after the switch and i remember reading through a lot of these pages back in the day.

Where can I get one of these sweet looking number crunchers?