Apple first announced the switch from Power chips to Intel processors last year at the Worldwide Developers Conference, promising to ship the first Intel products before June 2006.
The performance per watt of the Intel chip was the main reason for Apple to switch to the Intel platform, Intel chief executive Steve Jobs said.
The Macpower Pro is the successor to the PowerBook notebook. It comes with a 15.4” screen and either a 1.67GHz or a 1.93GHz Intel Core Duo processor.
The new models offer a four- to five-fold performance increase, Jobs claimed.
Jobs also unveiled a new Imac powered by a Intel Core Duo processor. Promising a two- to three-fold performance increase, the computers come in a 1.83GHz 17” model and a 2GHz model with a 20” screen.
The remaining Apple computers, such as the Ibook, Mac Mini and Powermac, will be upgraded later this year, Jobs said.
The switch from Power to Intel processors requires software developers to recompile and certify their applications for the Intel systems. Apple has also created an intermediate technology dubbed Rosetta to ensure that software designed for Power systems also runs on an Intel processor. All new software unveiled during Jobs’s keynote presentation ships in a version for both Intel and Power systems. The company also made available a free update to its operating system that enables the software to run on both architectures.
Jobs also promised to make available so-called universal code versions of Final Cut Pro, Aperture and Logic Pro, its professional software tools for movies, photos and audio.
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