Apple WWDC 2005-The Intel Switch Revealed

now let's go to a big topic transitions let's talk about transitions the Mac in its history has had two major transitions so far right the first one 68k to PowerPC and that transition happened about ten years ago in the mid 90s I wasn't here then but the team then did a great job from everything I hear and the PowerPC the PowerPC said Apple up for the next decade it was a good move the second major transition though has been even bigger and that's the transition from OS 9 to OS 10 that we just finished a few years ago the early part of this decade this was a brain transplant and even though these operating systems vary in name only by one they are worlds apart in their technology OS 10 is the most advanced operating system on the planet and it is set Apple up for the next 20 years today it's time to begin a third transition we want to constantly be making the best computers for you and the rest of our users and so it's time for a third transition and yes it's true we are going to begin the transition from the PowerPC to Intel processors and we are going to begin it for you now and for our customers next year now why are we going to do this all right didn't we just get through going from OS 9 to oh s 10 isn't the business great right now why do we want another transition because we want to be making the best computers for our customer looking forward now I stood up here two years ago in front of you and I promised you this and we haven't been able to deliver that to you yet I think a lot of you would like a g5 in your power book and we haven't been able to deliver that to you yet but these aren't even the most important reasons the most important reasons are that as we look ahead though we have great products right now and we've got some great PowerPC products still yet to come as we look ahead we can envision some amazing products we want to build for you and we don't know how to build them with the future PowerPC roadmap and that's why we're going to do this when we look at Intel they've got great performance yes but they've got something else that's very important to us just as important as performance is power consumption and the way we look at it is performance per watt for one watt of power how much performance do you get and when we look at the future roadmaps projected out mid 2006 and beyond what we see is the PowerPC gives us sort of 15 units of performance per watt but the Intel roadmap in the future gives us 70 and so this tells us what we have to do now this is not going to be a transition that happens overnight it's going to happen over a period of a few years again we've got great products right now and we've got some great PowerPC products in the pipeline yet to be introduced but starting next year we will begin introducing max with Intel processors in them and over time this transition will occur so when we meet here again this time next year our plan is to be shipping Mac's with Intel processors by then and when we meet here again two years from now our plan is that the transition will be mostly complete and we think it will be complete by the end of 2007 so this is a two-year transition so first transition 68k the PowerPC second transition OS 9 - oh s 10 we're going to begin a third transition from the PowerPC to Intel processors there are two major challenges in this transition the first one is making mac OS 10 singh on intel processors right now I have something to tell you today Mac OS 10 has been leading a secret double life for the past five years there have been rumors to this effect but this is Apple's campus in Cupertino let's zoom in on it in that building right there we've had teams doing the gist in case scenario and our rules have been that our designs for OS 10 must be processor independent and that every project must be built for both the PowerPC and Intel processors and so today for the first time I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS 10 has been compiled for both PowerPC and Intel this has been going on for the last five years just in case so Mac os10 is cross-platform by design right from the very beginning so Mac os10 is singing on Intel processors and I just like to show you right now as a matter of fact as a matter of fact the system I've been using here let's go have a look let's go have a look here all right there we go so we've been running on an Intel system all morning and let me just go you know do a few simple things baseball you know boom all the normal stuff just works let's go back to these Dashboard widgets that we just brought out there they are and you know we can even let's see here you know go find a calendar event here very simple let me go show you mail there's mail right here Safari here's here's the new widget stuff way to find some widgets boom on Apple comm let me show you iPhoto loading in four thousand photos here we are and let me go ahead and play a movie here's a let me get rid of this here's a movie trailer here i'm doug liman director of The Bourne Identity Brad Pitt come on sweetheart come to Daddy Angelina Jolie he's your daddy all right not for that um so this is Mac os10 running on Intel processors

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Keywords: Apple, Macworld, Keynote, Mac, Macintosh, Steve, Jobs, Bill, Gates, Windows, OSX, Computer, ipod, imac, ibook, power, macbook, pro, vista

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Length: 8min 15sec (495 seconds)

Published: Wed May 16 2007

Reddit Comments

[u/Inrianian]

Wow, nice catch! I was always wondering why they didn’t take the leap to OS 11 earlier, mainly when iOS turned 11, I always thought that would’ve been the perfect time. Then all their OSes would be on the same number, except for watchOS.

[u/l008com]

While I don't always agree with the changes Apple has made over the years (10.7, 10.15 etc), overall and as a whole, it's been a pretty fucking amazing operating system.

I saw it for the first time with developer preview 3 (DP3) back in ~2000. This was before the public beta. I was running OS 9 like everyone. I got my hands on the developer preview and that was it. I fully switched. It was clear right away that this OS was far superior and was going to be the future. This was also about the time I bought a lot of apple stock because I knew this OS was going to be a winner. That stock is now worth.... a lot.

[u/delta_p_delta_x]

I think OS X looked its best in Snow Leopard. The gradient titlebars were beautiful, and contrary to popular opinion, I loved (still do love) the skeuomorphic icons.

Leopard, Snow Leopard, Vista, and 7 ushered in the new decade, with an age of hardware-accelerated 2D graphics. Both Aero and Aqua (cool names, too) were glorious UIs. It was quite a pity to see Apple and Microsoft steamroll over them quite indiscriminately with Windows 8 and OS X Yosemite.

Of course, the features introduced in both OSs over the years make Catalina and Windows 10 2004 undeniably better, but there's something very nostalgic about the old UIs.

[u/afterburners_engaged]

Am I the only one that read the title and went huh os10 was introduced in the early 90s?

[u/SlipperyScope]

It does look that way when you keep the number the same for 20 years

[u/sydneysider88]

OS 11 isn’t different from OS X, it’s just a new name and some tacky icons.

The transition from OS 9 was so huge Apple even shipped Macs with both OS’, for better compatibility and stability.

[u/_A_S_D_F_G_H_J_K_L_]

It’s nice how Steve’s presentation has little surprises and how he plays with the slides and words. It is quite a delight to follow his presentations. This section was really clear and I remember the three transcriptions and two challenges.... I think that kind of clarity is a bit lost in apples keynotes. Perhaps also they have much more to cover than the “old” days.

[u/YeetCacti]

Snow Leopard was the peak of this OS X era. Beyond that, the design, UX, and apps completely lost their way and the performance went out the window.

I'm still salty at how they ruined Expose/Spaces in 10.7 and beyond. Those should never have been merged.

[u/Ithrazel]

Buying NeXT was probably the best business decision Apple ever made as it got them both the os and Steve Jobs