March 22nd, 2020 at 2:15 PM
Mac OS is very fast, especially on the older releases. Catalina is much slower on mine. It takes several seconds to load a large program, but it otherwise runs fine. My 2012 can handle Cities Skylines. That's kinda nice.
I recently took an old Macbook and restricted it to 1GB of RAM just to see how it'd run. It ran like a charm, even on 1GB of RAM. Apple manages itself much better than Windows when it's running tight on resources...
Theoretically, the old PowerPC laptops were not the best, simply because they used the G4 instead of the G5 for power efficiency reasons. And they only had one core instead of two. I've heard they aren't bad. Never used one, but I've heard they perform just fine. Maybe it's the OS, maybe it's something different. But I've always wanted one.
It's nice that they upgraded yours already. 4GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD is not bad. I will say that Apple is HORRIBLY optimized for hard drives I've noticed. They are quite a bit faster once you throw an SSD in there. The RAM optimization is fantastic. The HDD optimization, not so much... Not sure why, but Windows handles hard drives better than Mac OS.
I also discovered that the new 2020 Macbook Airs only have a dual core i3 at the $999 price range. That's a little disappointing. You have to pay $1299 for the quad core one. That being said, the starting price for the 2018 model was $1199 for the dual core, so it's not too far off. Sales and discounts will start to bring it down soon enough, and the $999 model (which will be very popular for students and what not) will be just fine for those who are just using it for schoolwork or to browse the web.
I'm still going to buy one later this year or early next year most likely. And it's going to be the quad core on so that I can start recording music again.
I recently took an old Macbook and restricted it to 1GB of RAM just to see how it'd run. It ran like a charm, even on 1GB of RAM. Apple manages itself much better than Windows when it's running tight on resources...
Theoretically, the old PowerPC laptops were not the best, simply because they used the G4 instead of the G5 for power efficiency reasons. And they only had one core instead of two. I've heard they aren't bad. Never used one, but I've heard they perform just fine. Maybe it's the OS, maybe it's something different. But I've always wanted one.
It's nice that they upgraded yours already. 4GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD is not bad. I will say that Apple is HORRIBLY optimized for hard drives I've noticed. They are quite a bit faster once you throw an SSD in there. The RAM optimization is fantastic. The HDD optimization, not so much... Not sure why, but Windows handles hard drives better than Mac OS.
I also discovered that the new 2020 Macbook Airs only have a dual core i3 at the $999 price range. That's a little disappointing. You have to pay $1299 for the quad core one. That being said, the starting price for the 2018 model was $1199 for the dual core, so it's not too far off. Sales and discounts will start to bring it down soon enough, and the $999 model (which will be very popular for students and what not) will be just fine for those who are just using it for schoolwork or to browse the web.
I'm still going to buy one later this year or early next year most likely. And it's going to be the quad core on so that I can start recording music again.
