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		bboygravity 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks f... My first thought is that Apple is throttling performance of older machines on purpose (again). As they did with the phones. Would explain why Windows runs faster.

lostlogin 12 months ago [–]

> My first thought is that Apple is throttling performance of older machines on purpose (again).

The battery life argument was relevant, but where one sits on the issue is going to depend on the poison one picked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate

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