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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 353

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 353. Here are my solutions to them.

1: The future was here 25 years ago when the fastest land animal arrived.

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Cheetah (Mac OS X 10.0)

The future was here (launched under the tagline of ‘the future is here’) 25 years ago (released on 24 March 2001) when the fastest land animal (a cheetah, despite Mac OS X 10.0 being far from the fastest) arrived.

2: This atelier came with more than a marathon four years ago.

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Mac Studio M1

This atelier (a studio) came with more than a marathon (the first Apple silicon Mac to feature an M1 Ultra chip) four years ago (announced 8 March and released 18 March 2022).

3: Wicked fast at 40 MHz, its special effects impressed 36 years ago.

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Macintosh IIfx

Wicked fast (it was dubbed ‘wicked fast’) at 40 MHz (the clock speed of its 68030 CPU and bus), its special effects (FX) impressed 36 years ago (released 19 March 1990).

The common factor

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They each celebrated their anniversaries this month.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.