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I suppose because I've seen my Apple Watch struggle with the most basic of things. Like displaying a text message, or scrolling through a full set of apps. It's never felt like a speedy device, and seeing something render so smoothly like this gave a contrast to how I usually feel. That help?

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The first gen watch was very much like the first gen iPhone - a cool tech demo on underpowered hardware.

It was supported far too long, and with its final updates it was barely suitable as a timepiece. It couldn’t handle the most basic of tasks, like receiving messages or playing MP3s on your AirPods.

That is quite surprising given that a Pentium 166MHz had zero issues playing mp3s in winamp, 1998 hardware.

1998 hardware meets 2022 code

At least watchOS doesn't run Electron.

Yet

Hell you could play mp3s on a 486 if you put winamp's decoder in half quality

Maybe, except Pentiums were the current generation when winamp came into the scene, hence why I made a mention to it.

Did it have a five gram battery?

How do you think it would keep BIOS settings stored in RAM between power cycles?

More like 1995 hardware.

Could be, the date I mentioned is when I could afford buying a P166, and I didn't bother to check the interwebs for the release date, now I have gone and found it, depending on the exact variation from P5 or P6, it could have been released between 1995 and 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Pentium

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