Intel CES announcement: Penryn in the wild

by Michael Rose (Jan 8th 2008 11:30AM)

Since the Mac Pros announced earlier today are using the "Harpertown" desktop version of the chip, it should be no surprise that Intel's Penryn family of processors are shipping and in use, as announced at CES yesterday. The full suite of chips inclu...

Mac OS on Intel in 1992...almost

by Dave Caolo (Jun 20th 2005 9:00AM)

I found this article on LowEndMac.com today describing the porting of the Mac OS to Intel hardware that almost took place in 1992. This was the post-Steve Apple (also known as The Dark Days when Apple was in the business of making beige paper weights...

Intel Software Development Tools Beta for Mac OS

by Fabienne Serriere (Jan 16th 2006 6:00PM)

Intel is offering a free trial of the following products for MacIntel developers: Intel® C Compiler for Mac OS Intel® Fortran Compiler for Mac OS Intel® Math Kernel Library for Mac OS Intel® Integrated Performance Primitive...

Intel iMac processors replaceable

by Scott McNulty (Jan 31st 2006 1:00PM)

Accelerate Your Mac is reporting (I'd link directly to it, but it seems that they don't believe in the power of permalinks) that a recent issue of MacFan (a Japanese Mac magazine) has successfully replaced the Intel processor in the Intel iMac with a...

Red Hat Linux distro to boot on Intel Macs

by Fabienne Serriere (Jan 25th 2006 11:30AM)

They haven't mentioned exactly HOW they will make Red Hat Linux boot on the new Intel-based Macs, but a Red Hat spokesperson has confirmed they are committed to creating a distro for the new hardware. This may take a while because they haven't yet pu...

Intel website leaks full Ivy Bridge lineup

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 2nd 2012 11:27AM)

Intel apparently slipped and briefly posted a Spring product list that outed 17 desktop chips and 11 notebook chips. Many of these chips were listed in an earlier leak and could land in Mac and PC hardware this year. The PDF document was pulled fro...

Proof of Intel iBooks at MWSF?

by Damien Barrett (Dec 28th 2005 1:15PM)

More early evidence that Apple is set to release Intel-based portable and/or desktop computers at MacWorld Expo San Francisco in two weeks. EMSNow is a website that tracks news from the electronic manufacturing services industry, and they have an art...

Intel iMac desktop nirvana

by Scott McNulty (Jan 31st 2006 9:30AM)

As regular readers of TUAW might remember I have one of the last iMac G5's that Apple will ever produce, which are cosmetically identical to their Intel iMac brethren, so I know a thing or two about these desktops. They are great machines and I would...

Intel uses iTunes for benchmarking

by Aron Trimble (Jan 11th 2010 5:00PM)

Here's a bit of interesting for you from the folks over at APC: during a press event at CES 2010, Intel used iTunes to tout its latest processors rather than one of the other oft-used performance-testing suites. Specifically, they showed off an i5 pr...

Intel Mac mini take-apart

by Dave Caolo (Mar 2nd 2006 3:00PM)

What's the first thing you do when you get your new Mac home? Set it up and start playing around, maybe transfer all of your files? No, you grab some tools and take it apart! If you're itching to rip a new Intel mini wide open, take a look at this fu...

10.4.7 v. 2 for Intel

by Dan Lurie (Jun 29th 2006 7:00PM)

AppleInsider brings news that Apple will soon release an updated version of the 10.4.7 software update for Intel machines. According to the company, certain files pertaining to OpenGL performance are missing from the 10.4.6 to 10.4.7 updater package;...

Lion will drop support for earliest Intel Macs

by Michael Rose (Feb 25th 2011 1:00PM)

In the past two releases of Mac OS X, we've seen the baseline support for legacy machines hiked a notch higher each time; for Leopard, eliminating slower G4s from the working list, and for Snow Leopard dropping PowerPC support entirely in favor of...

The Postal Service speaks about Intel Ad

by Scott McNulty (Jan 20th 2006 10:30AM)

Who would have thought that the most controversial thing to come out of Macworld would be the commercial that Apple produced to hawk the idea of Intel inside Macs? Certainly not this pundit, though I also didn't think that iPod would sell, and I thou...

Penny Arcade excited about Intel Macs

by Scott McNulty (Jan 12th 2006 1:15PM)

Penny Arcade is a webcomic/community that is all about gaming in all its forms, hence not the typical place where you would expect to find the events of the keynote being discussed, that is before Macs had some screaming Intel processors in them. It ...

Intel iMac unpacking porn

by Scott McNulty (Jan 24th 2006 11:00AM)

It has been awhile since we featured a good set of Mac unpacking pictures (aka Mac porn). This set is brought to us by Paul Thurrott (and it isn't running Windows... yet). It basically looks exactly like my iMac G5 looked as I unpacked it, except the...