[whartung]

Take an SE/30, add some mass storage (something above 20MB), plug in a postscript printer, add ClarisWorks, maybe Filemaker, and you have something that, even today, would do 80%+ of what human beings use computers for.

Outside of the internet.

Get a network adapter (which pretty sure exists for the SE/30), and, like, Eudora(?), and you MIGHT even get email. Struggle there is everyone (rightly) does email over TLS, so there’s that.

BUT, add a raspberry pi as an email gateway, telnet to it for some Lynx love, and, boy, that’s a lot of computer utility.

Glaring gaps are anything graphic intensive, notably photos, and graphical internet.

Betting there’s some nice games that run on the SE.

[chongli]

would do 80%+ of what human beings use computers for.

Outside of the internet.

The internet is what 80% of people use computers for. They probably spend more than 80% of their computing time on it.

Furthermore, for business use you need to run the latest Office 365 applications. While an SE/30 could probably give a modern computer a run for its money at actual productivity, it’s not going to cut IT compatibility-wise. Plus there’s the whole PDF issue.

[rcarmo]

Prince of Persia is a great game to run on older Macs (not necessarily the SE).