On Oct 9, 7:58 pm, Salman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I just joined recently.
> I am not sure if anyone did ask this before.
> I have a very simple query….it's the reason I am purchasing a Mac
> Classic.
An SE/30 has the same case and can do a lot more at 30mhz with FPU.
Its the last of the series.
>
> Do we need all those megabytes of space and processing power, if most
> of our daily activities rotate on e-mails, short messaging, blogging
> and text editing in one form or another?
>
> I am deliberately ignoring the fact that there are tones of videos and
> images that could have been simply skimmed down to a more digestible
> format.
I do original black and white drawings with Painter4 on my 30mhz '040
with a tablet.
(you can see them on my blog at wedontdoanythingfast.blogspot.com)
I've seen a turbo enhanced classic playing black and white movies here
in a shop window in SanFrancisco.
I find a little mac very friendly for typing and writing. An '040 with
256 colors can run AdobeReader3 also which works with 80% of the pdf I
need to read, and with a lot less eyestrain for some curious reason...
OK so I am into the old powerbooks. But I have used an '030 book and a
performa450 '030 w/out FPU. Like the '040 better, now.
>
> Can we tolerate being so lean today, or we just supersize for no good
> reason?
The fancy software is often not needed the latest features, and huge
images are not needed for web pages. Until at least there is a 64bit
video or true 3-D standard (in which case a lot newer stuff is going
to become obsolete).
Old macs are friendly in ways that newer ones are not.
I do feel that there is tremendous tremendous waste of computer power.
But until we come up with some better ideas for things, the companies
have to stay in business and have to sell stuff to. But reasonably,
there has been a shift from cost of hardware limits to the cost of
software development -- that is priority now goes to making software
easy to write and rewrite rather than fast because the cost of
hardware is so low.
That being said if you wanted to learn programming you could possibly
do some back porting with care to get newer versions of some stuff
running. Particularly an text only browser such as Lynx could be
updated from the '97 version where it stopped, and optimized more
probably anyway. Also there are a number of simple Linux programs
which run great on 68k Linux which could be dealt with similarly.
>
> Salman
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