I am not particularly impressed by its performance.
The fact that it was released in 1990, but oh well.I'm curious: what about the Classic made you think you might be impressed with its performance?
Gee, why didn't I take that into consideration... oh well, I'm too much of an embarrassment.The Classic was about NOTHING but its $999 price point. 68020 vs. 68000 cost differential explains that in a nutshell.
You've got a point. Honestly what I might do with my Classic is push the original hardware to its limits, and maybe do my Classic III project in a different case. I don't know why all that didn't get through my thick skull but I've just been in a terrible mood lately.I find it just a bit amusing when people talk about performance of old systems like the Classic (amongst many others) when these days we seem dissatisfied with our multi-GHz, multi-core, dedicated silicon. It isn't performance I'm interested in with these type of systems, it's the experience of owning and using them. In some ways, the comparatively poor performance is part of that, because it's amazing what you could do with them despite that.
I am curious though if Apple was indeed trying to budget a 68020 into the Classic, as according to http://www.emulators.com/softmac.htm ROM table, it says the Classic's ROM supports the 68020, as does the Plus and SE. According to https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/68020/index.html there isn't a 68020 in DIP form for a drop-in replacement. I assume that would be a huge undertaking to make a Classic-like board with a PGA... but it would really be a cool idea.