[HamiltonJay]

promising such features as instant-on, smaller size, less heat and enhanced energy efficiency

I had all this in 1983...

[gridlock]

I Adore My 64.

[SergeiRachmaninov]

I've often thought that my Commodore64 was my most satisfactory computer.

Of course, I demanded little from it -- really sort of a memory typewriter -- but that was real word processing, even if it wasn't typesetting.

And this it did beautifully with a shareware program. I am not sure that it ever hung even once, and I certainly spent no time whatever fretting with issues of any sort. It was very easy and obvious how to get it to do the few (with my application) things that it did. No viruses. No manuals needed. No problems. No updates. Life was simple, but sweet.