Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 300

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 300. Here are my solutions to them.

1: The first chips with six-packs celebrated Halloween.

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M3

The first chips (Apple silicon SoCs) with six-packs (the M3 family is the first to support six-core clusters) celebrated Halloween (they were announced at Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ event on 30 October 2023).

2: First with FireWire and almost see-through in its two-tone case.

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Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White)

First with FireWire (it was the first Mac to come standard with FireWire ports) and almost see-through in its two-tone case (it has a distinctive translucent blue and white case).

3: It brought Exposé, Fast User Switching and Xcode.

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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

It brought Exposé, Fast User Switching and Xcode (all three were new features in 10.3, released on 24 October 2003).

The common factor

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The number 3; in binary 11, which looks like the number 2 in Roman numerals.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.