That’s right! Someone pitted a 21 year old Mac Plus against a modern-day dual core AMD PC on some user-centered performance tests.
You guessed it, the Mac Plus smoked the AMD, that is if you like using 20 year old software. Actually what started as a pretty funny piece actually ended with a very valuable point:
Is this to say that the Mac Plus is a better computer than the AMD? Of course not. The technological advancements of 21 years have placed modern PCs in a completely different league of varied capacities. But the “User Experience” has not changed much in two decades. Due to bloated code that has to incorporate hundreds of functions that average users don’t even know exist, let alone ever utilize, the software companies have weighed down our PCs to effectively neutralize their vast speed advantages. When we compare strictly common, everyday, basic user tasks between the Mac Plus and the AMD we find remarkable similarities in overall speed, thus it can be stated that for the majority of simple office uses, the massive advances in technology in the past two decades have brought zero advance in productivity.
Obviously new technology and features can come with huge advantages, but the challenge is knowing when to best use them to support the users goals.
Should have compared the Plus to a modern Mac. Boot to Desktop time would have been similar to a MacBook. Lecho