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- From: philw@xplor.com (PA Williamson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: High-end Amiga PRICES, PowerPC
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 05:24:52 GMT
- Organization: Redland Sky Toys
- Message-ID: <philw-0302962123100001@philw.users.xplor.com>
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- In article <1080.6606T1077T2944@fuchal.demon.co.uk>,
- chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk (Chris Appleton) wrote:
-
- > Why can't PC users accept that the machines run differently. They always talk
- > numbers, not very useful when comparing Amigas to PC's. For example, try a
- > PC with 8mb and a my 6mb A1200. At first glance, yes, the PC has more ram.
- > But look at it differently. The PC has the bare minimum to run the latest OS.
- > My A1200 has 6 (12?) times the bare minimum to run 3.1. Similarly with CPU
- > speeds, ever tried opening a window on a 8MB p75 in Windows'95? Gaaah! Yet on
- > my 28mhz (28, that's around 1/3 "as fast" to a PC user), WB opens and closes
- > windows like lightning.
- >
- > Kinda makes you think how bloaty PC OS's are...
-
-
- BUT....the Amiga with a fast 030/040/060 can't crunch numbers as fast
- as the fastest Pentuim. If I were to run a speadsheet on both my Amy 3000
- and my bro-in-laws 133 mhz Pentium, I'd get my butt kicked. The big
- difference here is he's running a fast CPU to get good performance from
- Windows. That his spreadsheet crunches numbers faster, wasn't important to
- him...he wanted Winblows to run faster. He absolutly freaks at how nice
- our GUI runs on "my old 030" system. I hope the PPC boards come through,
- cuz no matter how fast the Amiga's OS is, we still need faster number
- crunching. Just my opinion. :-)
-