Rosetta is not to be confused with Rosetta
Is a background application that integrates most PowerPC Mac OS XĪpplications in an Intel CPU Mac running Mac OS X in such a way thatīoth Intel Mac OS X applications and PowerPC Mac OS X applications can To be confused with 'booting into Mac OS 9.' Mac OS 9 booting supportsĪll Mac OS 9 compatible applications and drivers, where Classic does Is an environment within Mac OS X on PowerPC (PPC) Macs running 10.4.11Īnd earlier that allows most Mac OS 9 applications to run. Referring to Mac OS X 10.9, which came out in 2013.
Macs only), and was last bootable on 2003 Macs. That was last prebundled on Macs in early 2006 (on PowerPC G5 and G4 We refer to Mac OS 9 below, we are referring to the operating system To make it moreĬurrent, the following information has been updated. Has been covered in the User Tips section before. Software on newer machines is a frequent question on this board, which See also the timeline at the end of the tip. Mac Mini G4 was replaced by Mac Mini IntelĮMac was replaced by iMac Intel Educational 2006, Apple migrated all their desktop and notebook computers from theĪpple/IBM/Motorola CPUs known as PowerPC (PPC) to Intel CPUs.
