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Offline kirk_mTopic starter

X5000 systems
« on: October 09, 2016, 09:21:29 PM »
I am sure to get flamed on this but, I'll say it anyway.  I just checked out the US vendor's site that was posted earlier today.  Is it just me, or, is anyone else just not overly impressed with the specs for the machine?  USB 2.0?  The whole thing seems to be a decade or more behind PC and Mac hardware specs and it costs twice as much.  What would anyone buying one of these actually use it for other than just a hobby perspective?  Pleas enlighten me, because I can't really see the point.
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Offline kirk_mTopic starter

Re: X5000 systems
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2016, 03:17:12 AM »
Thanks for all the replies.  I agree, computing is boring to me now.  I got my first machine in 1982, a C64.  Then an Amiga 500, then a PC when Commodore went into its death spiral. I always bought AMD over Intel.  Finally, I wound up with my first Mac 8 years ago, and this was the first intel based system I owned.  I stopped playing games on the PC 16 years ago.  Just not my thing any more, and I can't even force myself to play console systems with my kids.  The MacOS was the closest thing (besides Linux, which I always chose over Windows when I could) to my time spent on the Amiga.  I'm in a much different place nowadays, and, priorities have changed with regards to computing (everything to me is strictly utilitarian, versus all fun and games during the 64/Amiga/Early PC era), so, I can see the attraction to this new machine for one who is strictly utilitarian.  I might try one out eventually, but, I can't see how doing the same exact utilitarian tasks on this new system as what I do on my other systems could possibly re-invigorate the kind of interest I had in computers 30+ years ago.
-/- A500 & ACA500 & ACA1233n -/- A500 Tower & VAMPiRE II 500+ -/- A2000 & BLiZZARD 2060 -/- A3000 & CYBERSTORM MKII 040 -/- A1200 & BLiZZARD 1230 MK IV -/- A1200 & BLiZZARD 1260 -/- A4000 & 3640 -/-