Which way do you prefer or "Have it your way."

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The Ouya stinks.  It's god awful, and I regret ever backing it.  While some forgiveness can be given for a rev 1 product, it's beyond rough around the edges, bordering on unusable.

2-3 more generations and it might actually do something, but IMHO it's about as useful as a Nexus Q right now.

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Just because a 20 year old Mac suits your needs doesn't make everyone on the bleeding edge "wrong"    Those old machines boot the OS off a floppy - the OS from those days is far, far different than a modern OS.

Your usage case is simply different.  That same machine wouldn't do a single task I require out of a daily driver machine, but as above - my needs are much different than yours.  To each his own, with due respect - and all that jazz.

Use what you enjoy, I say.  There's always going to be the types that scream from the rooftops "WELL IF I CAN'T DO IT ON MY PDP-8 IT ISN'T WORTH DOING AND IT IS NOT REAL COMPUTING!11!!1!1!1"

Simple fact is, when most of us got into computers, you had to be a computer enthusiast.  You *had* to have technical skills.  These days, modern machines are just an appliance to most people.

I've got a SAM 440 I just love.  I know I overpaid for it by about 3x.  I know it can't do half what my year old cell phone can do.  I love it for what it is.

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Simple evolution, really.  Peg the blame on sloppy code or whatever you like, but the sheer fact is 300 megs is not a lot of memory for any system built in recent times.  Office for me nowhere uses that amount, and it's a renowned memory pig.  I've got Word, Outlook, and Visio fired up at the moment and they aren't using 200 megs between them.  I haven't owned a PC in the last 5 years that didn't have a minimum of 4-6 gigs of RAM.  CED is running on my SAM atm, editing/compiling some code, 2 megs usage.  I do see your theoretical point.

I bought an 8 gig stick of DDR3 RAM (Corsair, overclock grade) for $25 last week.

If all else fails - there's always Wordpad or Notepad

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My point was that software has not evolved as fast (and well) as hardware. If I have to write a letter or document, I don't need a word processor which occupies 300Mb ram.

This being said, there's people right now on some other God awful Luddite forums cursing and screaming about how "computers are ruining the world!!" while clutching quill pens and booklets of paper