3 ms·
I had a G4 MacBook when I switched to the first-gen Intel MacBooks, and subjectively, the G4 performed much, much better. Probably because the best pairing for
by 0x457 2mo ago
I had a G4 MacBook when I switched to the first-gen Intel MacBooks, and subjectively, the G4 performed much, much better. Probably because the best pairing for any Intel CPU is thermal throttling.
- crest 2mo agoA lot of the important applications took a while to get ported. Also the last two generations of G4 hardware just overclocked basically unchanged chips. The 12" G4 laptop was infamous for slowly cooking your junk with their titanium shell.
- 0x457 2mo agoAt the time I switched, nearly everything that I used was running native. > The 12" G4 laptop was infamous for slowly cooking your junk with their titanium shell. That's my experience with every unibody Intel MacBook as well, but not with Apple Silicon.
- nxobject 2mo agoThe black MacBook I remember especially for leaving me with denim burns. And then I read all of the eulogies from people who never had to run it as a daily driver…
- pavlov 2mo agoI lived through the PPC->Intel transition porting real Mac apps, and "I liked the G4 laptops better" is definitely not a take I heard from anyone back then...