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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by 0x457 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:45PM (#49437783)
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.
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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by pavlov on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:27PM (#49438436)
I 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...
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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by crest on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:22PM (#49438368)
A 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.
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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by 0x457 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:33PM (#49438529)
At 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.

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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by nxobject on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:18PM (#49443828)
The 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…
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