Adobe Systems is dropping support for Apple's older PowerPC G3 hardware in its Flash Player, the company said Thursday. The news came in a note on its support Web site alerting users to an updated ...

Buried deep within a bulletin announcing a security update to Flash is a dire warning for Mac users somehow saddled with a G3-equipped machine. Adobe Flash Player 10.1, the unifying ber-Flash that won ...

The previous installment in this series took us from the rise of the PowerPC line into the line’s heyday as a leader in the RISC workstation market. During the reign of the PowerPC 600 series, Apple ...

In December 2002, ThinkSecret first reported on faster PowerPC G3 processors in the works -- these high speed chips were said to provide speeds in excess of 1GHz, and were codenamed "Gobi". Beyond ...

Terra Soft is selling PowerPC computers designed from the ground-up to run PowerPC Linux. The new yellow boxes, called “briQ,” use G3 and G4 processors and ship with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed.

When NASA's Perseverance guided itself to the surface of Mars on February 18th, it did so with the help of the same processor that powered the 1998 iMac G3. You know, the colorful and bulbous ...

Apple's original iMac, powered by a G3 processor, was announced on May 6, 1998. Priced at $1,299, It was an all-in-one computer that amazed the users with its iconic translucent Bondi Blue casing. It ...

Mac upgrade maker Sonnet Technologies is showing off some new products that may interest users of aging iMacs and PowerBooks. The company has announced the Crescendo/WS G3, a processor upgrade card ...

Apple on Wednesday updated its portable line of computers, introducing new PowerBooks and iBooks. The updated notebooks feature faster processors for both products — up to 1GHz for the PowerBook and ...

Windows Vista gets a bad rap for its hefty hardware requirements, but it's not alone. Apple's MacOS X platform has left a lot of Macs with PowerPC G3, G4 and G5 chips out in the cold. However, Linux ...

generation of the black PowerBooks, but also features a low-power design that extends battery life and runs cooler than competitive offerings. The MAChSpeed G4 Pismo is factory installed and tested by ...

As you may well know, the original Nintendo Wii is based on fundamentally the same CPU as Nintendo's previous home system, the Gamecube. That's an IBM PowerPC chip known as "Broadway," which is ...