Back in college I had one an original Mac. You know, the one that looked like a toaster and that Burke Brethard made come to life and torture a penguin. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you are too young. Your loss!) The one where you could fit the Mac OS, MS Word, and a few dozen Word documents on a 400k floppy disk.

Seems some enterprising chap pitted an old MacPlus against a dual-core 64-bit AMD machine. It’s a very fair test in that the benchmarks he set up are realistic and meaningful. It’s interesting much much things improved over 20 years.

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