Give me a single reason why you need to spend thousands of dollars on a "modern" PC besides "muh manchild gaems!"
Office suites are virtually unchanged in terms of functionality. Websites are more demanding in terms of graphics, but the information they provide is the same regardless of your system. Coding, by and large, remains unchanged. The only concessions I might make are for supported speeds (internet, RAM, etc.) and storage capabilities, but even if you just move to Windows XP (or linux equivalents of the time), those are removed almost entirely, and largely irrelevant if you're doing actual, productive work.
There are actual professions that use powerful computers user, photo/video editing, 3D modeling, etc. If your computer use consists of reading emails and editing spread sheets you can do that with almost anything.
Anthony Robinson
>rants about muh gaems >posts a pic of a computer that in reality was all about muh gaems aside from top models like A2000/A3000/A4000
Nathan Hughes
PLC and SCADA/HMI programming
Andrew Mitchell
10bit anime
Benjamin Lopez
I suggest you leave Jow Forums if you have no technical or programming knowledge
Jaxson Mitchell
Music production
Joshua Edwards
electron apps
Lincoln Davis
>whines about games >posts a shitty Amiga that was only ever good as a gaming console/deluxe paint machine
Landon Carter
Because I have a extra cash in the bank and nothing to do with it. Might as well reduce my time spent waiting on my computer.
Joseph Martinez
Truth
Leo Allen
You can't do anything more than you could during the XP era but you have to upgrade because you'll be left behind by the rest of the world and become a dinosaur
Eli Anderson
>you'll be left behind by the rest of the world you say this like it's a bad thing. if there's a ship heading towards a volcano, i wouldn't want to be on it
Evan Brooks
What fucking timeline are you from, it was a general purpose computer, you did everything from browsing BBSes to your schoolwork on it.
Owen Collins
Art students are gay as hell nigga
Xavier Clark
Nothing that couldn't be achieved with a "modernized" Pentium 2 and an FPGA, with almost no detriment to the UX. Faster computers ultimately aren't for the customer's benefit -- it's for the programming industry's benefit, so we can run code on top of code on top of code. This is despite the fact that Lisp, on its own, still remains a competitive language and developing environment without the need for a webserver serving a react front end as a UI, totalling 1gb and thousands of wasted clock cycles, for a desktop application, that Delphi, had it not been practically abandoned, could've achieved in a few KBs and a fraction of a percent of the clock cycles.
Evan Perry
The Amiga is a bad example OP, since it was a far more capable machine at the time, it just wasn't priced high.
