Short Overview: In a recent episode I explored a 10-year-old MacBook to see if it could still keep up in today's world, and surprisingly it could. Dr Steve Bagley on why the clock cycles of a CPU aren't enough to measure its speed.

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In a recent episode I explored a 10-year-old MacBook to see if it could still keep up in today's world, and surprisingly it could. Dr Steve Bagley on why the clock cycles of a CPU aren't enough to measure its speed.

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