The very last model of Powerbook G4 and the very first model of Macbook Pro. At the time, I scoffed at what I had considered seemingly minor changes. But years on, and with the laptops side-by-side, its amazing the difference in speed and performance... truly telling just how outdated the PPC-74xx bloodline was by 2006. Granted, this 1.67 G4 notebook is still reasonably fast when doing menial and low-graphics internet tasks and works great with period apps like Adobe CS2, iLife 05, UT2004, and Medal of Honor. But the 1.83 CoreDuo Macbook Pro feels nearly as fast as my i7 MBP on non-video websites and still rocks daily heavy lifting tasks. It also has a display with better nits and contrast than 75% of the PC notebooks for sale at your local retailer in December of 2014, 8 years and 10 months after it was shipped. While people are paying $250, $300 for an 08 Macbook Pro with the doomed GT8600 cards just to try and run Yosemite at bottom dollar speeds, these ATI-endowed Macbooks are going strong under Snow Leopard for under a hundred bucks. When we look back decades from now, geeks will probably agree that the Pentium Pro/Pentium III/Pentium M/CoreDuo/Core2Duo/Core i lineage was perhaps the greatest single evolution in CPU history. I was PowerPC-obsessed in the classic days, and will always have vintage love for the platform, but sitting these two computers side by side makes me really, really happy that Apple put Intel inside a Mac.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:18:46 +0000
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