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A thought dawned on me this morning when I was thinking about the Power Mac G5, which came out around the time I first started getting into Macs: over 20 years
by linguae 2y ago
A thought dawned on me this morning when I was thinking about the Power Mac G5, which came out around the time I first started getting into Macs: over 20 years have elapsed since the release of the Power Mac G5 (and it's been almost 20 years since the release of the original Mac Mini). 20 years ago was the 20th anniversary of the original Macintosh 128K. The Macintosh 128K was decidedly retro back in 2004. Even though the curve of evolution between 2004 and 2024 is much flatter than the curve between 1984 and 2004, I still consider a 20 year-old computer retro, even if a Mac Mini G4 or a Power Mac G5 is much closer to contemporary Macs than a Macintosh 128K was to a Mac Mini G4.