It's also a fun one to write an emulator for. There are plenty of example programs out there to test, and they draw graphics by writing bytes to a frame buffer at some offset in memory. You can read from that region in memory, interpret each byte as a color from a preset palette, and use it to display visual output / graphics.
I wrote one in Swift a few years back, and then ended up developing it further into an NES emulator capable of playing Donkey Kong. It was a great learning experience.
This is year-on-year for Q1. If I want whatever Macs I bought in Q1 '24 to net out neutral here, I need to have bought an equal number of Macs in Q1 '23.
Per a sibling commenter, Apple did still sell Intel Macs throughout Q1 '23, so it's possible for the earlier set to have been Intel and the later to have been M-series, which we could count as the upgrades you describe. Intuitively it seems difficult to imagine very many people would have done this, but to set an upper bound we would need M-series vs. Intel share figures for Q1 '23.
Partiful is different from hosting public events. One thing is there's no way to search existing events in x city. Which also means there's no natural advertising of the event.
It's more for friends or mutual friends trying to organise an event together.
I still remember apps opening in less than one “bounce” on the OS X dock back in the snow leopard days. That was on a hackintosh with a 7200rpm hard drive.
To be honest, I don’t really remember my first real Mac (a Haswell late 2013 MBP with NVME) feeling all that different. I’m sure large disk operations were faster, and compile times were faster because of the better CPU, but something about that “good enough” snow leopard desktop setup withh spinning metal worked great; maybe they warmed up some caches of apps they knew you were likely to use to make the basics feel fast.
Overall I feel like things have gotten less snappy since then, but it’s hard to be objective after all these years.
