I'd still have my A4000 machine, but sometimes, life gets in the way and you have to make hard decisions. My A4000 was pretty nice. The only thing left to get was a good accelerator card, that never happened. The prices on A4000s are getting up there, so I was on the fence. Do I buy a now 20+ year old machine (and deal with potential capacitor replacement, possible battery leakage) and upgrade it or do I go with something new? I decided to go with the new machine. It hasn't come in yet, so I really don;t know what I'm in for. The folks I've talked to tell me it's an awesome computer.
Computers have come an appliance. I want a fun computer again. I spent countless hours on my A2000 tinkering, upgrading, tweaking the Workbench, etc... I don;t think I'll be able to do that with the x5000, but I think it will be "fun" again.
I also didn't expect the backlash I've gotten from Classic users regarding my purchase on other social media sites. I've been called everything except a gentleman and a scholar. I've owned my fair share of classic systems. I enjoyed everyone and I'm still a die hard fan.
Who wouldn't?
You'd have to be pretty stupid to sell an A4000 to finance the purchase of an NG machine (even though we have one negative poster on our forums that did just that - totally f'ing dumb).
Lets face it, I'm a big NG supporter, but I've got my A2000 sitting here waiting for a Vampire4.
You CAN support both platforms guys, legacy AND NG. They're not interchangeable or really competition for each other. Legacy runs legacy software damned good when its upgraded a bit, and the MIPS figure of a NG system make ANY legacy system look like a stone age computer.
I have fun revisiting legacy.
But, I get more done with NG (although we really need better productivity software, Odyssey has been a work horse for me but it now needs some upgrading, and we need a decent native word processor, to heck with OO, just give me a modern Amiga word processor).
