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- From: kbull@garlic.com (Greg Thomson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.tech
- Subject: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 08:04:26 GMT
- Organization: South_Valley_Internet
- Message-ID: <1747.6590T2T2932@garlic.com>
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-
- Ok, here is why I think Amigas, includeing my A1200 with a 50 Mhz 030 and
- 16 megs of ram suck:
-
- 1. Good and fast browsers do not exist
- 2. Graphics cards are too expensive and they are not as fast as their PC
- counterparts.
- 3. Amigas are expensive
- 4. They are not that easy to upgrade. Try adding a graphics card to an A1200
- 5. They do not have a PCI bus
- 6. There is no memory protection
- 7. Most games only run in 15 Khz mode because DBLNtsc is slow
- 8. Amiga games suck compared to the onse in the PC world
- 9. Sound on Amigas is very poor and 16 bit cards are too expensive (14 bit
- is not that great)
-
- Here is why I think Amigas are good
-
- 1. Good multitasking
- 2. Operating system does not waste resources like memory and processor
- 3. A lot of free software
- 4. Cool graphics programs ( which are now appearing on PC's)
-
-
- By the way Windows 95 is not that bad. Windows NT is very good. Networking on
- PC's is very nice. Netscape is very fast in Windows 95 and Windows NT. Oh,
- and lets see
-
- 1. Pentium mother board with 2 EIDE controllers, 2 serial, 2 parelel,
- 256K cache, upgradable for pipeline cache: $168
- 2. Pipline cache 8ns: $45
- 3. Segate EIDE 1.08 G HD: $208 (single platter, 10.5 ms, 256K)
- 4. Dimond 3D Edge PCI video/sound card with 2 megs DRAM: $300
- 5. Mini tower case: $33
- 6. 16 megs of ram 60 ns: $408
- 7. Pentium 120: $300
- 8. 3.5 Floppy: $25
- 9. 6x CD Rom: $148
-
- Total (withought a monitor and a modem): $1627 plus tax
-
- If you think this price is too good to be true look in the latest issue
- of Microtimes and shop around a little. I will keep my A1200 for a while
- but my next computer will not be an Amiga unless AT keeps all of its
- promisses and lowers the price to match PCs.
-
- KBull
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