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Use your 32–bit applications

UNFORTUNATELY, IN COMPUTING, nothing lasts forever. When 32–bit processors gave way to the more efficient 64–bit chips, it was inevitable software written for 32–bit CPUs would eventually be abandoned. It was a long time coming on the Mac. If you bought a Mac in 2007 or later it’s likely to have a 64-bit processor, but support for 32-bit apps wasn’t dropped until the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina in 2019. That’s a very generous window for developers to get their apps in order.

Even so, some apps were left untouched and abandoned, and if you try to

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