I think I will be the contrarian on this one.
If the question is “If you had the money would you buy...?” the answer is Yes.
I was one of those guys (”fools”, if you will) who 30 years ago was buying CP/M computers at $3,000 with 64K of RAM. Innovators and early adopters drive technology improvements with their investment in technology early in its life. Without them, technology doesn’t advance.
If the question was “In your current circumstance, would you buy...?” the answer is No.
I still have a couple H8 computers around that boot CP/M, HDOS or UCSD Pascal. They were expensive at the time, but served to launch a whole new career.
So was I. So was I.
But the analogy fails because at that time there was nothing that could do better than that in that price range.
Nothing.
Virtually every car on the road today does what the volt does. Better, cheaper, faster.
Would you have bought that CP/M if there were tons of other electronics that used proven technology that had been progressing for the last 100 years and all of these were better, cheaper & faster?
Of course you would not have, and that is the salient question
Thank you for your post.