This is the system Apple used to test iPhone software in 2006

Yeah, it was a pretty old computer by that point. I replaced it with a first-gen core 2 duo iMac, which Google tells me came out in late 2006.

Funny thing is, it was still much faster and more responsive than my much newer computer at work - from pressing the power button to reading my first email message was pretty quick. At work, using what the specs would have suggested was a reasonably powerful 2004 or 2005 model PC, between typing in my password and the GUI being responsive enough that I could do anything useful, there was a delay long enough for a bathroom break, fetching a cup of coffee, and a brief chat if someone else happened to be in the kitchen.

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