any one know 1980s computer specs.

[PhotonWrangler]

any of you would of thought apple silicon would be better then intel?

Didn't Apple use their own silicon in early MACs before they went to the power-pc architecture?

 

[raggie33]

Didn't Apple use their own silicon in early MACs before they went to the power-pc architecture?

dont recal but the m1 cpu is so crazy good

 

[PhotonWrangler]

That's what I've heard also. Even before the M1 though it was really good. I used to have a Macbook Pro at work including a VMware emulator running Windows side-by-side with MacOS, and the Windows stuff ran faster on my Macbook than they did on some native Windows laptops at the time. It was impressive.

 

[raggie33]

sadly i think intel wont be around much longer amd is a tad better but intel is still on 10 nm cpu die

 

[PhotonWrangler]

I went to AMD for a little while in the 90s but I went back to Intel when I saw what a power hog and heat source those AMD chips were at the time. They've gotten far better since then but that memory still sticks in my head.

 

[raggie33]

amd is kicking butt now. which makes intel work harder. but arm cpus are the way to go. i recall some amd.cpus that fan sounded like a wet vac lol

 

[Beamhead]

Didn't Apple use their own silicon in early MACs before they went to the power-pc architecture?

Motorola did.