Onyx_
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My Blog: Project Marklar

In April 2002, eWeek reported a rumor that Apple had a version of Mac OS X running on x86 processors, code-named Marklar. The idea behind Marklar was to keep Mac OS X running on an alternate platform should Apple become unsatisfied with the progress of the PowerPC platform.[2] These rumors subsided until late in May 2005, when CNet reported that Apple would unveil Marklar in the coming months. The rumor was confirmed by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs in June 2005, when he announced that future Macintosh products will run on Intel processors starting in 2006. After pre-release x86-based Macs were released to developers, a copy of the x86-based version of Mac OS X was leaked onto the Internet, and hackers managed to get it to run on non-Apple x86-based PCs.