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20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again

arstechnica.com
7 points·by tjakab·30 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

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tjakab
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It's almost like the rush to ship new features year after year without ever pausing to fix and optimize things has taken its toll.
tjakab
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The same Apple that reset a large number of iCloud passwords last year with no warning or notice, and no public acknowledgement or explanation? It was determined after to only have affected legacy Apple IDs that predated iCloud, but there was never any confirmation from Apple.
tjakab
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It was clearly an 1D-10T error.
tjakab
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Eraserhead is highly watchable, but the first time you see it, it's best to just experience it without trying to process it too much. The nuance comes through on repeat viewings.
tjakab
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I largely see it as the digital next step up from something like the Mythic Game Master Emulator, which is popular for solo play and things like trying out new systems.

And there's quite a lot of us that like to play but because of life commitments, getting together with a group on a regular schedule is difficult.
tjakab
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
My suspicion from early in my career is it was people that came from IT who just assumed that 'MAC' was an acronym for something, like pretty much everything else they dealt with, as opposed to the shortening of the proper noun 'Macintosh.'
tjakab
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Tiger was Spring of 2005, Leopard was Fall of 2007. That one was delayed several months because Apple had to divert resources to ship the first iPhone. Snow Leopard was Fall 2009, then Apple basically moved onto the yearly release cycle in Summer 2011 with Lion and moved it to Fall of every year with Mavericks in 2013.

I believe Mavericks was also when Apple stopped charging for OS upgrades.
tjakab
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I suspect even if the Intel transition hadn't happened, assuming the Mac survived it probably still would have been destined for Apple Silicon once the ARM platform became powerful enough.
tjakab
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
That was the secret expansion port that some third-parties made accessories for anyway. I recall it was gone by the Rev-B model.
tjakab
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Don't forget though that NeXTSTEP was also running on workstation-class hardware and priced accordingly (~$6500), vs. Windows running on late 80s commodity PCs (probably ~$1500-$2000) with lesser specs. For that kind of cost difference NeXTSTEP had better have looked and performed better.
tjakab
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Realistically the second season of Sandman and final season of Stranger Things probably won't materialize until 2024 given how long they take to produce.
tjakab
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I'll throw in the 'Ghosts' series by Nine Inch Nails. These land somewhere between Eno and Aphex Twin and were basically a precursor to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's soundtrack work (some of which may also be worth a listen).
tjakab
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Most business systems are using Intel GPUs unless there's a specific need for workstations with Nvidia or AMD discrete graphics.