As the used price of my used QM2000 (In a small Mini-Tower PC) has dropped to a bit more one half of what I paid for it(700$) , but the functionality is still very, very good, you can pry it from my cold dead hands. :-) In some ways its still the "Gold Standard" output device, and will often keep the show rolling as a "bus master" when the host PC itself has crashed. Yes, you have to lug a big box around, which makes many modern laserists un-comfortable. There has been this horrible obsession towards miniaturization in the show industry in the last ten or so years, so often the deciding factor between a FB and a PCI card is simply the desire to have very small gear, that you can take on a plane as "carry on". Yet very few of that group actually fly to their gigs.
PS Pangolin's LD2000 rarely crashes, have not yet got to Beyond due to limited budget, but have seen it, and like it.
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I kept my earlier QM32 for like 15 years, so the cards are well built and stay running, wish I could say as much for the many host PCs over the years. MY old QM32 is still keeping a very low budget hobbyist happy in an ancient ISA machine, so...
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Steve
Last edited by mixedgas; 05-10-2017 at 14:35.
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