What happened?

So much of apple's hardware pre-iphone era were so comfy, when did it all turn to shit and why?

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Steve escaped Elba

Rim Cook

Steve "aesthetics over functionality" Jobs

Shitty market trends, lack of risk taking and the genericization/appliance-ification of modern computers in general.
Jobs-era PowerPC and Intel high-end systems were both form and function, though, while Tim Cock gave us the trash can.

Intel switch had nothing to do with form nor function. It was all a cost saving move to increase profits at the expense of consumers needing to buy entirely new software.
It's the same thing when Jobs single-handedly eliminated all the OS work from 84 to 99, 15 years worth, for his shitty NeXT bullshit that Apple had bought a few years previously.
Jobs was shit for technology. He was only a business man through and through. He provided nothing of import in technological history.

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iphone 3 was truly a rather awesome phone
iphone 4 was retarded
5 was an improvement i guess
SE is where the good shit is
everything else, t r a s h

personal opinion

i wouldnt say everything post iphone wasnt comfy though, ipod touches are pretty nice, the nano was cool

Nigga, this is just a bunch of contrarian knee-jerk crap and you obviously don't even know what you're talking about. Core was vastly superior to the PowerPC G5/G4 (especially the G4) series chips it replaced and early Intel versions of OS X shipped standard with Rosetta and other compatibility measures to make the transition as smooth as possible. Same goes for the Classic operating system, which was most often loaded alongside OS X 10.0-10.2 in a dual-boot configuration or accessible from OS X via classic mode on transitional systems.

Take it from a guy still heating his house with a G5/2.3DC in 2019 and loving every minute of it, it wasn't just some cost-cutting conspiracy. PowerPC was dead and had no future just like the 68000 it replaced and the 6502 it replaced before it.

i've got one word for you
NORMAL PEOPLE

>dude a brand new processor is definitely better than a processor that was released 4 years before, especially one that was realeased 8 years before
Go back to sucking cock.

what the fuck is there a filter on n0rmies now?

normies
does that work?

What are you talking about? The 970MP shipping in the G5 was less than a year old when the first Core systems came out in August 2006, while the PowerBook and Mac Mini lines were using a reasonably recent G4 revision (the 7447a) that basically pushed the architecture to its limits.

Even if we buy into your moronic implication that literally every G4 and G5 was the same, that was still the reality of PowerPC on the desktop in 2006, and that only serves to underscore my counterpoint that the transition to a faster, superior line of processors that was actively evolving was very much an upgrade in function.

It's not my fault that Apple doesn't update their hardware. It doesn't mean that IBM wasn't producing G5's able to compete with anything Intel was producing at the time.

They literally weren't, and they literally could not. PowerPC ran too hot, required too much power, and hit lower clock speeds. Apple had been testing internally testing OS X on Intel since its inception.

Are you actually reading any replies to the dumb shit you’re posting or are you just a shill reading from a script driven by trigger words? Apple’s G5 systems were it, and they always had the latest and greatest that IBM could muster.

Same fag.
Like how Macs are the latest and greatest that Intel can pump out?

Seriously, are you illiterate?

When most of their executives and almost all of their Board of Directors became Jews.

Go back to sucking Cook's cock.

IBM only ever used the 970 in a small handful of systems and they were never the fastest models. I don’t even think there was ever an IntelliStation based on the later dual-core ones either.

Seriously, are you fucking illiterate? Stop deflecting the fact that you don’t know shit about what you’re talking about.

Look at these apple fags taking Cook's cock out of their mouths long enough to spew bullshit marketing points in this thread.

It was shit back then as well

Look at this retarded shill copy pasting shit from a script that obviously can’t even speak English.

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Yes, Intel switch was a forced hang move because of the stupid agreement with IBM.
No, Mac OS was outdated and unsalavageble, macOS / OS X was a good alternative. Portable APIs from the ground up was very progressive for the time.

>eliminated all the OS work from 84 to 99, 15 years worth
Apple had *literally* put 100 manyears and millions into developing their own OS that never worked out and classic Mac OS was unsalvageable. The only thing Jobs did was stop Apple from putting another 100 years and millions into development of something that wouldn't have worked, worse, BeOS.

Nothing in there was marketing though, just facts. The IntelliStation POWER 185 only maxed out at dual 2.5 GHz vanilla G5’s while Apple made them shit out an overclocked 2.7 GHz variant just for them at the same time and then upgraded the whole line with the new dual-core chips that IBM never used in anything.

And even with overclocked liquid cooled systems they still couldn’t compete with Intel laptop chips, kek. PowerPC post-G4 was only ever really good at floating-point shit and pretty average or sub-par on integer, which is the only thing that matters for 99% of desktop applications.

Yes it was superior to PowerPC. Not POWER. But the contract with IBM that Apple had, didn't allow switching over to POWER instead and required Apple to found everything from R&D to testing, while IBM could work on their own POWER chips that were much, much more cabale, that IBM used for several years till now, even in workstations.

Nobody ever said otherwise, my man.

The reason PowerPC 970 IntelliStation 185s existed was to use up the 970 silicon stock they had after Apple gave up on the deal, they never pushed that 185 lineup and called it lower than the previous ones for a reason. All of the other non-x86 IntelliStations were their own in-house, from ground up, POWER based.

But on that same note, even POWER chips still had that FP over integer skew that meant their great performance on enterprise systems wasn’t necessarily going to carry over to a desktop.

Have any links for that? There doesn’t seem to be a ton of interesting shit on the 185 or POWER IntelliStations in general out there on the internet.