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I owned a Macintosh Quadra 650 in 2001 -- bought it for C$60 from an outgoing senior -- and it was already long in the tooth when I had it (the original Quadra
by wenc 6y ago
I owned a Macintosh Quadra 650 in 2001 -- bought it for C$60 from an outgoing senior -- and it was already long in the tooth when I had it (the original Quadra 650 was released in 1993).
It ran System 7.1. It was a beautiful machine but I couldn't get any real work done on it -- the browser (IE for Mac) was too slow, and ClarisWorks was too simple.
I believe there are pivot points in computer technology. A machine just after a pivot will last a long time, while a machine just one year earlier will age badly.
My main desktop was a Dell Inspiron 530 Core 2 Duo from 2005-2020. The Core 2 Duo was a long lasting chip, and I could watch YouTube, browse the web on the latest Firefox, etc. with no problems at all the way up to the start of the pandemic this year (I recently upgraded to a 2014 Dell i7, which I'll likely keep for another 10 years). If I had a Core Solo, I'd likely have dumped it.
I eventually sold the Quadra (and the Mac II, Mac SE, the Sun SPARCstation 1 pizzabox, and all the other vintage machines I had in my college apartment). They were fun to own for a while, but ultimately impractical to keep around.
- zokier 6y ago> If I had a Core Solo, I'd likely have dumped it. I do note that there was never a Core Solo desktop CPU. There were handful of single-core Conroe Celerons released, but all main "Core" series parts were at least dual-core (i.e. Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad)
- wenc 6y agoThanks. I remember that the Core Solo was used on some Apple machines, including one of the first Intel Mac Minis (a pseudo-desktop machine?). https://lowendmac.com/2006/mac-mini-core-solo/ https://lowendmac.com/2006/mac-mini-core-solo/
- RegnisGnaw 6y agoThere was no Core Solo desktop CPU but the Core Solo did exist in Mobile Editions: * https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=37246 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro... * https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=27247 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro...
- r00fus 6y agoMac mini core solo did exist [1]. My parents owned one. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac_mini_cs_1.5.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac_mini_c...
- Twirrim 6y agoI finally upgraded my home machine this year, up from an i7 4770k, ~7 year old processor. The memory was starting to fail, and I figured it was finally due. I've replaced the GPU a couple of times, and upgraded storage but that's about it. It's a nice boost for certain workloads that thread well, but it's not a huge boost for single threaded workloads except for certain specialised stuff where there are newer instructions to take advantage of. Contrast that to a roughly comparable time frame: 486sx 60Mhz -> Athlon 1Ghz. Short of a major revolution, I expect this CPU/Memory will last me just as long.