I had a G4 MacBook when I switched to the first-gen Intel MacBooks, and subjectively, the G4 performed much, much better. Probably because the best pairing for any Intel CPU is thermal throttling.

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pavlov 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I lived through the PPC->Intel transition porting real Mac apps, and "I liked the G4 laptops better" is definitely not a take I heard from anyone back then...

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crest 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

A lot of the important applications took a while to get ported. Also the last two generations of G4 hardware just overclocked basically unchanged chips. The 12" G4 laptop was infamous for slowly cooking your junk with their titanium shell.

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		At the time I switched, nearly everything that I used was running native. > The 12" G4 laptop was infamous for slowly cooking your junk with their titanium shell. That's my experience with every unibody Intel MacBook as well, but not with Apple Silicon.