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> FUD. First Intel Macbook Pro, first iPhone, first iPad, first Apple Watch... these were all excellent devices. The 2nd gen were all extreme improvements thou
by rangibaby 6y ago
> FUD. First Intel Macbook Pro, first iPhone, first iPad, first Apple Watch... these were all excellent devices.
The 2nd gen were all extreme improvements though
> Also, I believe you are misinformed about the types of processors available in the first Intel macs.
as far as I remember the initial Intel Macs were a Mac Mini (Core Solo) and MacBooks (Core Duo).
32bit EFI was a thing and made life difficult with a Mac Pro. At some point the MacOS dropped support for the 32bit EFI, and had to have OS upgrades installed with patched installers.
- lallysingh 6y agoThe iPhone 3g was hot garbage.
- christoph 6y agoThe iPad 3 was pretty terrible very quickly as well - I think it was the slowest iPad they ever made. Mainly due to quickly cobbling a retina screen to hardware (GPU and RAM) that simply couldn’t drive that many pixels.
- rangibaby 6y agoI never have or had a problem with the iPad 3’s performance. I did have a problem with how heavy it was compared to the previous generation
- t-writescode 6y agoI really liked my iPhone 3g :/ I just wanted to be contrarian and get an Android phone instead, and I did for a while and the Android phones with keyboards were pretty great.
- jmull 6y ago> The 2nd gen were all extreme improvements though Welcome to the state-of-the- art in the mid 2000’s. That’s what Intel used to offer and why it was worth it for Apple to transition from PowerPC to Intel. But Intel hasn’t improved much in years. Yes, Apple will probably release significantly better processors in ARM macs in the upcoming years. But they likely would not be able to release Macs with significantly better Intel processors if they stick with Intel.