bloodbath2you wrote:What about making the "perfect build"?
my good ol' 486 is almost finished and i will keep it forever, nothing else. 😀
I try to make all my builds somewhat perfect for their time, but the issue arises when you make a build too perfect. Eventually you reach a point where it would have made more sense to upgrade to a newer technology. That's why I put my pin in the ground at one area, and try to add as many cool things into those builds as possible. There is only so much you can do to a build then to improve it.
After finding an amazing Commodore 64/VIC collection for dirt-cheap, I too have been eyeing Amiga hardware as i find them very interesting systems. However, due to the INSANE pricing of Amiga things, I might just *GASP* build a Raspberry Pi Amiga and be done with it.
That's why I am tempted to look into Macintoshes, as they have somewhat similar hardware at the core to Amigas. The same can be said about Atari STs (heck, they were even called Jackintoshes).
I don't think I want to continue on IBM compatibles forever, as there are only so many systems you can have before they start to blur together for a simple collector. Of course more machines are awesome, but it's a case of what do you do next? I have a DX4 machine, a Pentium Pro machine, and a P3 machine. my next build is based around the FX-55, and once you go past that you get into the territory of somewhat modern computers.