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    The Mac transition to Apple silicon was the process of switching the central processing units (CPUs) of Apple's line of Mac computers from Intel's x86-64...
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    The Mac transition to Intel processors was the process of switching the central processing units (CPUs) of Apple's line of Mac and Xserve computers from...
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    Developer Transition Kit was made available in 2020 prior to the Mac transition to Apple silicon as part of its initiative to transition the Mac away from...
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    referring to its chips as Apple silicon. The first Macs with Apple silicon, built with the Apple M1 chip, were unveiled on November 10, 2020. The Mac lineup...
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  • developed by Apple Inc. for macOS, an application compatibility layer between different instruction set architectures. It enables a transition to newer hardware...
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    Apple M3 is a series of ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc., part of the Apple silicon series, as a central processing unit (CPU) and...
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  • Pro models; all future versions will only support Apple silicon. macOS Tahoe was announced by Apple's senior vice president (SVP) of software engineering...
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  • Developer Transition Kit, is the A12Z Bionic. On November 10, 2020, Apple announced the first Mac Apple silicon chip, the Apple M1, in the Late 2020 Mac Mini...
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    architecture intended for Apple's Mac computers after switching from Intel Core to Apple silicon, succeeding the M1. Apple announced the M2 on June 6...
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    sub-product lines MacBook and Mac Pro. Since 2020, Macs have transitioned to Apple silicon chips based on ARM64. In the late 1970s, the Apple II became one...
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    Hackintosh (redirect from Mac Os X X86)
    result of Apple's 2005 transition to Intel processors, away from PowerPC. From that transition to the early 2020s transition to Apple silicon, Mac computers...
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    switching from Intel to Apple silicon fourteen years after they were switched from PowerPC to Intel, and twenty-six years after the transition from the original...
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    Apple–Intel architecture Mac transition to Intel processors Mac transition to Apple silicon Fat binary Rosetta (software) Xslimmer "Firefox 4 for Mac...
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    storage and replaces most of the data ports with USB-C. The Apple silicon Mac Mini based on the Apple M1 chip was introduced in November 2020; however Intel-based...
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    Technical Specifications". support.apple.com. Retrieved November 5, 2022. "Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon". Apple Newsroom. Archived from the...
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  • history of macOS, Apple's current Mac operating system formerly named Mac OS X until 2011 and then OS X until 2016, began with the company's project to replace...
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  • macOS Sequoia (version 15) is the twenty-first and current major release of Apple's macOS operating system, the successor to macOS Sonoma. It was announced...
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    The iMac with Apple silicon is a line of all-in-one desktop Macs made by Apple Inc. since 2021. The first major redesign of the iMac line since 2012,...
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    tvOS 14, macOS Big Sur and the Mac transition to Apple silicon. The keynote was recorded at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. An Apple Event was held...
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  • silicon-based Macs using the Rosetta 2 binary translation software. The transition was completed at WWDC 2023 with the announcement of the Apple silicon Mac Pro...
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    were succeeded by Apple silicon MacBook Pros beginning in 2020 as part of the Mac transition to Apple silicon. On November 10, 2020, Apple discontinued the...
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  • Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4) is the 5th major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers. Tiger was released to...
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    on the Apple M2 Ultra chip. It is the first model with an Apple silicon chip. Its introduction completed the Mac transition from Intel to Apple processors...
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    part of the Mac transition to Apple's own processors, the Intel-based iMac was succeeded by the Apple silicon iMac beginning in 2021. Apple discontinued...
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  • System 7 (redirect from Apple System 7)
    similar to the distribution of universal binaries during the Mac transition to Intel processors in 2006, as well as the Mac transition to Apple silicon beginning...
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  • macOS Ventura (version 13) is the nineteenth major release of macOS, Apple's operating system for Macintosh computers. The successor to macOS Monterey...
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    discontinued with the completion of the Mac transition to Apple silicon in June 2023. In October 2019 security researchers began to theorize that the T2 might also...
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    Power-on self-test (category Articles to be expanded from May 2024)
    Mac transition to Apple silicon marked a radical change in the POST process in Macs. Unlike most Intel-based Macs with UEFI, Apple silicon-based Macs...
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  • VMware Fusion (category MacOS software)
    after being announced. Along with the Mac transition to Apple silicon in 2020, VMware announced plans for Fusion to support the new M-series platform and...
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  • developed by Apple Inc. for macOS that come bundled by default or are installed through a system update. Many of the default programs found on macOS have counterparts...
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