OSX 10.7 dropped it, and new Mac’s left it behind too.ĭaniel Taylor is right - I’ll throw my 2 cents in. The switch to the Intel processor was predicated on power-issues particularly in the move to miniaturization, as well as confidence Intel could provide the goods, which the did.Īs a result, the G5 was left in the dust as Apple had such success with using Intel processors that they dropped support for that kind of code in software in hardware.
The G5 was the ultimate expression of the Motorola processor that defined Apple for decades.
