A Powerbook G4 is barely fast enough to run a large language model
A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere ...
Software Engineer Runs Generative AI on 20-Year-Old PowerBook G4
In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an ...
The 5 coolest-looking Macs you probably haven't heard of
If you encounter one of the Macs below in the wild, what you're really seeing is an abandoned evolutionary branch. The ...
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Forget the M4 Air, I want Apple to bring back the plain ol’ MacBook
In my younger days, I lugged around a 17-inch PowerBook G4 with pride, boasting about how I wasn’t willing ... What I really want is for Apple to revive the 12-inch MacBook. Thanks to Apple silicon ...
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Forget the M4 Air, I want Apple to bring back the plain ol’ MacBook
There was a time in my life as a MacBook user when I preferred the largest model. In my younger days, I lugged around a 17-inch PowerBook G4 with pride, boasting about how I wasn’t willing to ...
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NASA’s new Mars rover is powered by a decades-old Mac chip
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s new Perseverance rover has been on Mars for less than two weeks, but science ...
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G4 IMac Gets An M1 Heart Transplant
The second-generation iMac was a big departure from the original brightly-colored release. The chunky CRT aesthetic was dead, replaced with a sleek design featuring a slim LCD monitor on a ...