![]() ![]() ![]() every wired mouse i try on a modern machine and can whip from side to side and see the latency clearly, like a beat in my head, if the first beat is my hand movement, and I can clearly "hear" the second distinct beat of the computer responding, which means it's clearly perceptible. Totally agree, ~100ms feels really subpar to me, but unfortunately seems to have become the status quo, most input devices seem to end up on the order of ~10s of ms usually closer to the 100 end by the time they affect pixels. The outcome is the significant part, and that outcome suggests physical hardware does make a difference. based upon the capabilities of the hardware) or a psychological one? I really don't know and I really don't know if the distinction matters. It is too easy to escape the sandbox in a multitude of ways. Doing something similar with an emulator simply would not have been as effective. Boot it into System 6 with Multifinder disabled, and it reduced the distraction of other software installed on the machine. A vintage Mac provided an ideal work environment since it was great for preparing technical documents and didn't have all of the distractions of the Internet. Well, crunch time came and I found that I was getting far too distracted. It was a time when you could get something like a Mac IIfx for next to nothing and still expect it to work. I collected vintage hardware in my university days. With emulation, you are constraining what the machine can do. With vintage hardware, you are constrained by what the machine can do. > Do you think you would get a similar or diminished experience with e.g a raspberry pi and a little LCD screen etc that booted straight into a minivmac emulator? While basement tinkerers are not going to care about something being in character, collectors are going to care and collectors have a huge impact upon prices. It would also be out of character for that machine. The SE/30 was certified for 32 MB of RAM, but the hardware design accommodated 128 MB of RAM.Ī Classic II can run almost any software that an SE/30 can, a bit more slowly and perhaps with an eye on the available memory. The Classic II was capped at 10 MB of RAM. Even something as simple as RAM demonstrates how fundamentally different these machines were. ![]() If the standard System Software wasn't good enough, there was even a option to run A/UX. Throw in a network card, and it was used as a server. Throw in a display adapter and a two page display, and it was used for desktop publishing. The reality is that machines like the SE/30 were targeted at organizations and professionals with deep pockets. That is not what the SE/30 was designed for. That is, more-or-less, what the Classic II was designed for. People seem to have the notion that old computers were only good for word processing and games. The Classic II isn't a cost reduced version of an older model, it has also been crippled.įor a lot of people, that's not going to matter. I would be surprised if the machines are remotely similar in price these days. ![]()
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