{"id":33969,"date":"2021-07-17T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macradio.net\/blog\/?p=33969"},"modified":"2021-07-17T18:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T01:50:19","slug":"newsletter-issue-1019-the-road-to-becoming-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2021\/07\/newsletter-issue-1019-the-road-to-becoming-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #1019: The Road to Becoming Obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, this article is not so much about electronic gadgetry than a personal observation, something that one might regard as inevitable. But I\u2019ll pull through it.<\/p>\n<p>So over the years, I was always more or less at the front of the line in buying new computing hardware. Not that I had lots of money to burn, but I was able to juggle my finances in such a way as to be able to finance the latest and greatest gear from Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Now having current gear really didn\u2019t help all that much with my productivity. After all, the actual performance boosts from year to year were generally fairly slight. Indeed, the 1994 introduction of the PowerPC chip was, for a while, a step behind. Almost all of the apps I used had to be run in emulation mode till they were updated \u2014 if they were updated. That meant existing basically two processor families behind. Apps launched slower, everything ran slower, and it wasn\u2019t the chip matured, and apps came along, that things were improved noticeably.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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