NG X5000 Advice

[nicholas]

Slow is relative. Compared to my 8-core Ryzen 1800X (3.6 GHz base, 4.1 GHz turbo), which cost about €700 for the motherboard+CPU, the X5000's dual-core CPU (one usable core in AmigaOS) at 2 GHz is slow by any metric. It's perhaps as powerful as the Snapdragon SOC in my phone.

Still, it's the fastest "Amiga" in the world, so by that definition it can't be slow, and it certainly should be faster than the SAM 460 that came out 7 years ago. So if you really want the fastest AmigaOS 4 machine available, this is it.

WinUAE on your Ryzen will be faster than an X5000

[nicholas]

And here's me struggling with my 2007 Intel Celeron M 1.6 GHz laptop. I maxed out the RAM last year to 2GB from 1GB! This is the machine I use every day! It does the job, just. The internet gets heavier each year though so it'll soon be time for an adblocker! Youtube videos seem to get harder to decode as well.
I bet an X5000 would seem heavenly fast compared to what I'm used to!

YouTube gives you VP8/9 encoded videos by default, if you install h264ify add-on for Firefox/Chrome it'll force YouTube to stream h264 encoded videos which your video card should be able to play with it's hardware decoder.

Install ublock origin for your sanity/security too

[nicholas]

So is "fast".  It's all perception.  

Faster isn't subjective though.

[nicholas]

Thanks, i'll look into that. I use Vivaldi but I think it takes Chrome ad-ons so that should be fine.

I use it with no problems under Vivaldi.