Comment on Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, a 17k$ (back then) workstation from the 90s would still be fine. People love their SGI and Sun machines.

  Not sure how much they did cost back then, I was born in 1996, but you get the idea.

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  • havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A $17k workstation from the 90’s would not even be able to browse the internet.

    To put it in perspective, we didn’t even have multi-core CPUs until the mid 2000’s, a mid 90’s machine would have around 400 MHz on a single core and that’s being generous.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m well aware of what these are capable of, these things are not bought for your Twitter and Reddit activities.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’d be able to upgrade the insides while still looking opulently golden.

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  • SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And yet a $17k apple power Mac g5 today barely functions for YouTube

    youtu.be/6SqYMU81l8Y?si=x9zrS6y27Gv4Mvby

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Macs are not iconic.

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhvfa3zRaGs

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