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 ...

What’s it like to use a 2002-era Apple eMac all-in-one in 2025? That’s what [MattKC] asked himself after obtaining one of ...

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 ...

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 today updated its iBook line of portables with faster PowerPC G3 processors, running at up to 800 MHz, and the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500. Weighing as little as 4.9 pounds, the iBook now starts at ...

Why did Apple drop the IBM-backed PowerPC architecture and switch to Intel in 2005? Four years to the month, one person involved in the discussions between Apple and IBM offers some insight. Brooke ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...