X5000 systems

[gertsy]

Up to a point, but in most situations they sit unused........
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 Software under single user OS' just is not threaded well enough.
 With the number of modules typically running, Windows and OSX should do a much better job of this, but the simple fact is they don't.
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Obviously not doing any video encoding.  And a fact is always simple if you just make it up.

[gertsy]

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.

Agree 100%, and there's no going back. Computing for computing's sake is a hobby.  Doing that on PC or Mac has little appeal. Productivity(as it was called back when) and utility is a good word for it, is what these platforms provide at performance and production levels an Amiga from the past or even now could never achieve.  Elegance was at play back then not raw power and throughput. I'd love to have an x1000/5000, I just can't think what I'd use it for.

[gertsy]

Of course im not being sarcastic, im a producer in hollywood how about you? You think im just making things up? im speaking from experience. one of my old customers still uses amigas and he is a senior project manager at Sony 3d labs for example.

Hey @magnetic what does he(ur old customer) use the Amiga's for?

@arnuph1s :  Agree with your overall point, but; there are way more then 2 points of view. :)Entrenched or not. Subjective judgement, abuse and bullying, some logical reasoning, plus passion. Viva la difference I say.

[gertsy]

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Not bad for a 'dead', 'obsolete', 'hobbyist' system.

Glad to see Iggy, Agree 100%. Pretty good in fact.