Can you switch a power Mac PC processor with an Intel processor?
Switching the processor out on your PC can often improve performance if you are replacing it with a faster processor. A processor depends on its compatibility with the motherboard, the main chip in the computer, and its ability to fit in the processor socket, the bed where the processor is seated and plugged in. Apple has changed the type of processors used in its computers from PowerPC to Intel, two incompatible processors.Mac Processor ChangesIntel Mac and PowerPC Mac processors are not cross compatible, and switching them out will not work; however, some Mac computers already have Intel processors. As of August 2006, all PowerPC processors are Intel processors. The Apple switch to Intel processors began in January of 2006 and was announced by Steve Jobs in 2005. Apple used to use its own processors and motherboard types prior to the switch. If you have one of the new Mac computers with the Intel processor, you can switch the processor out for an upgraded processor that is compatible
