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From TiBook to MacBook

Intel era

>>> In June 2005, Steve Jobs told the faithful that hell had frozen over: Apple was moving to Intel processors. The PowerPC G5 was too hot and too hungry for laptops, and Apple felt the PowerPC was now a dead end. “We can envision some amazing products we want to build for you and we don’t know how to build them with the future PowerPC roadmap,” Jobs said. Intel offered what the PowerPC couldn’t: chips running 3GHz and more that didn’t make Powerbooks hotter than the sun.

great years for Mac has to be 2001. The PowerBook G4 was made from 2001 to 2006 first in titanium (nicknamed the ‘TiBook’) and then

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