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Lion will drop support for earliest Intel Macs

by Michael Rose (Feb 25th, 2011)

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 newer Intel models. Now, with the developer ...

Core solo Mac mini upgraded to core duo

by Dave Caolo (Mar 6th, 2006)

Check this out. Xtreme Systems forum user Fugger bought an Intel Mac mini core solo and upgraded it to a core duo on his own using an Intel Yonah 2.16 Core Duo. He writes: "Once the motherboard is out, flip it over and locate the plastic tabs that hold down the CPU bracket. Squeeze them and it ...