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- From: robodude@deanwong.rad.jhu.edu (Zsolt Szabo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Bars&Pipes
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 03:00:48 GMT
- Organization: The Dungeon
- Message-ID: <4f94l0$h9@news.jhu.edu>
- References: <1207.6602T900T2019@oslonett.no> <822938961.11726@spence-n.demon.co.uk> <4f4m95$ob8@tron.sci.fi>
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- In article <4f4m95$ob8@tron.sci.fi>, Erno Helen <ertzi@sci.fi> wrote:
-
- >This bit has a serious error: The 'Amiga is cheap' bit. Amiga ain't
- >cheap at all -- I was faced with a choice last year: either upgrade
- >my Amiga 1200 to include a tower with Zorro slots, a 68030 and a
- >graphics card, or buy a new computer (mac/pc) altogether. Well,
- >upgrading the Amiga would have cost as much as a new, complete Pen-
- >tium-75 system, monitors and everything, and 16mb of memory.
- >
- >I took the Pentium option, and now, a few months later, I have one
- >thing to say: The PC is cheap, but you get what you pay for. You
- >get the poor man's implementation. The PC isn't anywhere near
- >Amiga's comfort of use and it really takes a lot to trust your
- >music on a PC. My PC system crashes all the times, while my Amiga
- >had a minor mishap every couple months.
- >Of course, all of this is personal preference stuff, but I never
- >liked crashes and data loss. Obviously some people do.
- >
- >The PC is like a zombie that was pumped with steroids and stuff
- >to make it seem like a modern system. It's now beginning to
- >show; the ancient hardware cannot cope with what it is put
- >up against nowadays. The PC was designed for spreadsheets under
- >DOS, remember?
- >
-
-
- All I can say is--you get what you pay for. A cheap PC (such as yours)
- will produce mediocre results. Try getting a Micron 166MHz Pentium system
- with 32 megs of WRAM, a 17-20" monitor, Fast/Wide SCSI-2, a 2-4 gig
- SCSI-2 hard drive and WIN Nt. You will soon notice that the system you
- are working on is perhaps not quite as archaic as you would like to believe.
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