MacPower users, episode 557, grading the Intel era.

Hello everyone, this is David Sparks joined by my fellow co-host Mr Stephen Hackett.

How you doing Stephen? I'm good David it's good to be back. I was out last week

thank you for holding down the MPU fort for both of us.

Yeah, it was fun and Leanna and I could talk for hours so that was an easy one

but we sure are glad to have you back.

It's good to be back.

And especially this week because we are

tapping into your vast knowledge of Apple history this week. I thought it'd be fun as we're

heading into a new era of Apple microchips in their computers to take a look back at the last era.

And so today we're going to dive deep a bit on how the Mac ended up on

Intel chips and how that went and how it's ending in the near future.

Yeah, I thought this would be fun. I'm also psyched that you agree to the idea.

I was like, I really want to talk for an hour and half about processors, like,

yes, let's do it. So, yeah. talk for an hour and half about processors.

Like, yes, let's do it.

So, yeah, a little bit different than a normal episode,

but it's not every day that the Mac makes a big transition

and those of us who follow the Mac and really care about it as a

platform this is big important stuff so we thought we could take a week and and talk

about this here you know it could be very soon that we see the first Apple Silicon Mac

Apple said definitely by the end of 2020 and here we are in the middle of

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