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sflocal said:

MplsP said:

Fatman said:

Tht - I thought the same thing. For the younger crowd ... older PC towers (circa 386, 486 era?) had a turbo button - I believe it simply overclocked the processor. I always wondered why you would want it off - to work slower? LOL

The first computer I owned was a 486 tower with a 'turbo' button - when I opened it up to install a new video card I found out that the turbo button actually wan't connected to anything! 

I remember quite a few PC's that were mainly by independent sellers building their own rigs that never had that "turbo" button connected to anything.  Now that I think of it, I don't ever recall the Turbo button ever working on anything.  Any insights?

yeah I had a 286 with one of those.

A lot of games written for 8088-series CPUs were timed against the speed of the CPU, not the internal clock. This would render an arcade game on a faster game as unplayable.

The effect was unnoticeable on non-game apps (word processors, whatever) because those old DOS apps really ran pretty fast on anything, as there was no GUI to update. Some sort of complex WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 function would probably be visibly slower if one did a side-by-side benchmark, but not enough people has spare computers lying around to even do a comparison like that.

One would probably never notice unless they tried to play a game like King's Quest I on a 486, and games were improving at such a rapid clip that nobody cared, definitely not surprising that many buttons weren't hooked up.

My MSIE 5 story:

Back in 2001 I moved from SLC to Portland, OR. I moved without a job lined up, but it was still dot-com-boom and with four years experience under my belt, thought I would be a shoe-in at any graphic design firm.

This did not go well. I shopped around my resume — with a prominent link to my online portfolio — to every design firm in the city. Did not get a single call-back. My savings and my mood dwindled. Then 9/11 happened, the world went crazy, and I sank into a six-month long depressive funk.

Eventually got a job working on front end for a shipping company, and noticed that they had some Macs for testing ("we don't bother, nobody uses Macs"), and I decided to load up my portfolio site for fun. 

Crash-ola. Not just the browser — the OS, everything. Every single time. 

Turned out that there was a CSS bug in MSIE 5 that could trigger an OS crash. For months, I was handing out a URL to design firms (still majority Mac) that would not just crash their browser, but take out all their unsaved work with it. 

As soon as I had $400 to spare I bought a 400mhz Indigo iMac, which (once upgraded to OS X) I found to be more enjoyable to use than my DIY 1.2ghz speed demon PC, and that’s how I came to be yammering on an Apple fan site twenty years later…

macmarcus said:

Love the Apple Watch but the Digital Crown is by far my least favorite part of it. Easy to bump it when hand bent so Siri comes on. Would prefer to just scroll on the screen and have a button in its place for a total of two buttons on that side.

I've found it helpful to flip the watch so the crown is on the "elbow" side of my arm instead of the "wrist" side. (You can flip the orientation in Settings.)

> And, Apple tells us that individual keys can be replaced. We didn't get any information on what this entails, but at this juncture, it still looks like a complete disassembly is required to do so.

 No, they can be popped off just like the old 20xx-2015 models. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+16-Inch+2019+Teardown/128106#s249714

What a bummer. After the iPad Pros I thought they'd be able to shave much more bezel off of Macbook screens. This really is just a bigger 15" laptop, what is even the point.