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PowerPC applications no longer supported on Mac

Did apple ever come up with a solution for this?


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iMac (2017 – 2020)

Posted on Feb 1, 2024 6:22 PM

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Feb 3, 2024 1:13 PM in response to DTniice

PowerPC application support in OS X ended with OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and the original Rosetta 1 PPC/Altvec instruction translator to X86. Rosetta 1, introduced in 2005, was phased out in 2011 with the introduction of OS X Lion.


The current Rosetta 2 technology is an X86-64 Intel instruction translator allowing some applications compiled for Intel platforms to run on Apple M1 - Mn architectures.

PowerPC applications no longer supported on Mac

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