>Has anyone formatted a floppy disk in a PC in the 21st Century?
Yes, me. Simulated one and a real one.
>The bloody things hold nothing are unreliable and cost more than a standard CD.
If you had some efficiently encoded and unique software like I do, you won't need a CD-R/RW. A floppy would be sufficient. The CD-Rs are also unreliable-- they are more easily scratched than a floppy disk. They should have put them (CDs and DVDs) in a case like floppy disks-- ahh, but that would be 1970s/80s technology.
>But for less than 2 thousand US dollars I can burn a dvd, render a three d image, edit a 12 Megapixel photo, design a newsletter with pictures, tables and graphs, process a podcast and edit an HD video on m Mac.
And your still not satisfied. Otherwise, if I claim a twice the faster system and twice the storage that would not disturb you.
>And if anyone of them crashes the others just carry on without noticing...
Unless one of the tasks happens to be spyware/virus infected then your HD/memory/network and consequent DVD/CD outputs are unreliable.
>And as far as power, the A4000 is rated at 150 watts for the CPU alone, not counting monitors - did you say CRT? My iMac is rated at 120 and draws about 93 when stressed.
So a PC laptop is better than your iMac then.
>1994 technology is 1994 technology...
Yes, some of it unique that has yet to be topped. I guess Einstein's theories are old technology too-- perhaps we should come up with better theories.
