Apple IIe vs Modern iMac Throwdown | WIRED

In this episode, watch as we tear down Apple’s //e and 27” iMac. We pull them apart, compare them, and give interesting tech, cultural details and statistics.


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Apple IIe vs Modern iMac Throwdown | WIRED

Kornhaber Brown

[xsilnt]

That moment when the Apple IIe has better games than a modern mac

[Shadowtail]

Is this a new series? If so, THIS IS AWESOME!

[BIsForBudget]

You hit the nail on the head! As a kid, I loved being able to expand the memory and add cards to my Apple IIe. This aspect made me move to a PC after college.

[arcade_signal]

the floppy disks were 140k and there was a mouse (though you had to buy it separately)

[JacobHartnett]

how do you get the front panel of the Imac?

[nageorgiou]

Goes to show how apple has changed for the worse.

[djh]

Nice! Which booted the quickest? The ZX Spectrum was one of the quickest booting machines I ever saw, the TRS-80 model 1 was very fast too

[irwainnornossa]

Wait…what? 00:52, you are pointing at the GPU. What? You've showed the CPU in shot of mainboard. It’s the one with RAM slots next to it. SO…why do you point on the GPU? It has integrated VRAMs next to it, it isn’t difficult to recognize. And when you say i7 CPU, it would be nice to specify generation. Because that’s kind of important. Besides that…what about the GPU? Why not give couple of seconds to that?

[santosgessy]

Damn tech has come a long long way, who knows what the future holds.

[patrice]

Awesome video ! had to be done, it's maybe all that will be remembered of our time

[SingaporeSkaterSam]

Too fast. I wanted to soak in the comparison, then you were on to the next one already.

[mark]

The processor is way more than 4000 times faster, your just counting clock speed the I7 had multiple cores,

[thedarknerd]

where is battle damage it has been a year

[Lorem_ipsum_dolor_sit_amet]

Let me preface this by saying, I'm not an expert. But I'm pretty sure what you pointed out as the 2016 iMacs CPU is either the GPU or the Northbridge. It looks like the i7 is at the bottom of the board.

[jr]

So if the origional had the processing power of the new one it would be WAAAAY better?

[AwesomeGamer-werm]

do in battle damage The first fan vs Lasto fan.

[Goran_Varbanov]

And yet, the apple ii line is legendary, not this iMac...

[godfatherNYC]

Why did anyone buy the Apple IIe, when they could have just *waited, * and bought the modern iMac, for *less* money and *far better* performance?

[drewelement]

Kina similar to the thing Vsauce 3 does...

[Usrisdead]

to be suprised the more modern computers are easy to hack