Mark Benson wrote:
Might be, on the other hand it could be the Mac mini is just a very slow system on the whole - it's not exactly a speed optimised architecture...
An intrepid machine with a 166MHz bus and RAM is an Intrepid machine with a 166MHz bus and RAM... If I whacked my RAM and a Radeon 9200 (Though they don't make 32MB AGP cards!) in an MDD G4 with a 1.5GHz 7447/7457 based CPU upgrade it would perform identically... But I guess an MDD G4 isn't a new machine either!
True, but they never really stopped being useful machines. I know a guy in our Local Amiga user group that has used nothing but Amigas since 1992 and swears by them. He does everything most people do using an Amiga 4000. Pretty impressive. I suppose if you're a professional and need specialist Apps then it's maybe not the way forward, but it's not a dead end by any means.
I'm beginning to wish I hadn't killed my A1200 (don't ask) - I could put a PPC board in it now! I suppose I could buy an AmigaONE, but it would be a significant expense I could be putting towards my Quad G5 (I wish) fund!
Anything with a Performa badge on usually was...
The Quadra and LC 630 was the same machine (Though the Quadra used the FPU equipped '040, I believe. Mine should have performed the same after upgrading), it can't have sucked that much... And anyway, it had a CD drive... That was new, fangled stuff for me. I'm easily distracted into making bad purchases by things which are shiny! It scares me to think that the PowerCenter Pro 240 I have sitting around now is only a couple of years newer. Then again, even the 5500 I got a year and a half after the Performa (I think it was a 5500 as opposed to a 5400, since there was no 225MHz 5400 and performance didn't suck as much as I've heard the 52-5400s did thanks to their dodgy system board design) was much, much faster and that only had a 603e.
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