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by throwaway613746 40 days ago
macos itself is sluggish af

I booted up an OLD imac stuck on 10.something, with an - I can't remember which gen - i5 and only 8gb of ram and I was blown away by how much it FLIES on that ancient hardware - even compared to my M1 Max Mac Studio

Apple Silicon is great. Everything else sucks.

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Well, they could have had BeOS instead of NeXTStep.
Jobs would have been lost with that move...
I am skeptical.