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burning swine
May 26, 2004



lack of pre-emptive multitasking in an OS being sold into the late 90's was pretty loving ridiculous

it's amazing they ever worked

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burning swine
May 26, 2004



anyone remember the last gasping breath of powerPC, the G5, and those ads claiming it was the "fastest cpu in the world"



then it turned out the source of that claim was a benchmark apple conducted themselves against a mid-level neutered pentium 4 with hyperthreading disabled

burning swine
May 26, 2004



DaNzA posted:

weird, the intel/xeon mac pros immediately afterwards had a 980W psu too

http://www.macpalace.com/661-4001-power-supply-980w-614-0383-614-0382-614-0400-dps-980ab.html

and even the newer 2008/2009 mac pros all had a beefy 980W PSU

gotta liquidate that stock

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