Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 279

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 279. Here are my solutions to them.

1: The first year it goes from London to Leeds with the First Eleven on its arm.

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2020

The first year (2020, the year Apple silicon Macs were released) it goes from London to Leeds (the M1 motorway in England) with the First Eleven (launched with macOS 11.0 Big Sur installed) on its arm (they use Arm CPUs).

2: When intel brought the fifth big cat in a solo or duo.

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2006

When intel (Intel) brought the fifth big cat (they came with OS X Tiger 10.4.4) in a solo or duo (they had Intel Core Solo or Duo processors in 2006).

3: When 6100-8100 came from the aim of seven.

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1994

When 6100-8100 (first PowerPC models were Power Mac 6100, 7100 and 8100 of 1994) came from the aim (the processors were developed by the AIM Alliance of Apple, IBM and Motorola) of seven (they shipped with System 7.1.2).

The common factor

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They are the years in which Apple released the first Macs in each of its new architectures.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.