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by scarface_74 457 days ago
You do remember the crash prone classic MacOS, the ridiculous Performa line, the Copland disaster and that Apple was almost bankrupt?

Also the classic MacOS where you (the user) had to pre allocate memory per application and where holding down the mouse button stopped any application from running in the background.
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officeplant 457 days ago
It's wild but my own issue free MacOS era was OS9 on my iBook G3 clamshell. Had to replace a harddrive (bounced down a stairwell, but held together) and upgraded the ram, but other than that fine experience.

My next Mac was a 2008 Macbook Pro (non-unibody) that had backlight issues out of the box, failed display cable two years in, and then the GPU failed. (Nvidia plague era, and Steve Jobs silence plague era of shit-ass fan curves)

To this day I still refuse to trust Apple's fan curves and install fan control software. Especially the M1 iMac with the cut down graphics that they only gave one fan and a smaller heatsink. Watched it break 100C regularly.

The m1/m2 mac mini might be the only one I've never had issues with the stock fan curves so far, but I still bump them up anyway for peace of mind. I don't see a reason to let an SoC hit 98C even if its rated to do so.

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scarface_74 457 days ago
I skipped most of the x86 era. I had the first Intel Mac mini connected to my TV running Front Row in 2006. But after that I didn’t buy another Mac until the M2 MacBook Air in 2023.

At the end of the day, I was just not that impressed with the x86 based Macs. They had all of the drawbacks of x86 with all of the added disadvantages of Ive inspired design which led to poor heat dissipation, not enough ports and butterfly keyboards

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veidr 457 days ago
Apple basically _did_ die, after Performa/Copland (and let's not forget Open Transport!!)

The resuscitation was truly miraculous.

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scarface_74 457 days ago
And QuickDraw GX and another quickly abandoned technology that came with System 7 Pro.
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JKCalhoun 456 days ago
When I started at Apple it was to work on Quickdraw GX.

It was very cool tech. Closer to what Apple would get from NeXT years later.

My guess is as to why it failed (and this was also the common sentiment at the time) — it was an optional install and not a default. It's hard to imagine anyone writing an app around a component (extension) that few people had in the OS.

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scarface_74 455 days ago
What a throwback.

And I just thought about the other abandoned tech that came with System 7.1 Pro - PowerTalk.

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