![]() ![]() The M1 has given the industry some excitement once again. After that, everything exciting involved the iPhone and iPad, then the watch, but not what most people think of as “computers”. The last exciting time was when Apple moved to x86 in 2006. Generally, computing had gotten a lot less exciting over the years as everything seemed to settle in. Thanks for reminding me what a great computer that was. And software is arriving quickly now too. Software came quickly because this wasn’t an incremental improvement, but a paradigm changing performance difference. That was amazing, and had hype (deserved) that was similar to what we’re seeing for the M1, also deserved. Adobe recently released beta versions of Premier, Rush, and Audition. It was three times faster, in my own testing. This time, in the switch to Apple Silicon, its taking days and weeks. Adobe released photoshop 2.51 that had filter support, and a lot of software followed, including some new, innovative stuff that couldn’t be done otherwise, such as live filters for PS. Quickly, WordPerfect came out with a native version. But when the PPC 601 came out, Apple, in a move to get them in service as quickly as possible, sold a 601 board that fitted. Back them Apple’s computers had a “processor slot”. I had the Quadra 950 at the time, believed to be the most powerful personal computer at the time. This all reminds me of the 68000 to PPC transition more than any other. ![]()
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