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- Path: peer-news.britain.eu.net!strath-cs!info!DJDavies
- From: DJDavies@exeter.ac.uk (D.J.Davies)
- Subject: Re: Upgrade my Amiga or buy a Pentium?
- Message-ID: <DnJuE7.9uq@exeter.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Exeter, UK
- References: <935.6628T1263T206@eastcoast.co.za>
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 18:08:30 GMT
-
- mips@eastcoast.co.za writes:
- > Hi all.
- >
- > I have got a bit of a problem. I currently own a Bare A1200 with 170HD
- > and a 5╝ inch drive + Philips MK-II monitor. I want to know if its
- > worth upgrading my current system by adding a Blizzard IV 50Mhz + 4megs
- > RAM? Or there is the other alternative, buy a Pentium 75 with 1 gig SCSI HD,
- > 8megs RAM, S3 Video card and the rest of the of the stuff those PC guys
- > drool about.
-
- I made a similar choice a while ago, I sold my 486 dx50 vl and
- bought a Blizzard IV 50Mhz + 4Mg a 540mg HD. I also now have a
- Multisync monitor, an Amitek HD Disk drive and have installed
- Shapeshifter, (WOW). and I am very happy that I did.
-
- If I really have to run Word 6 (which is'nt often enough to
- keep it on my system) I can run the Mac version. (I've replaced
- my 4mg simm).
-
- The Amiga is a joy to use, the PC and Win95 was a joke!
-
- My 9.15Mip Amiga has much more performance and cool software
- than my 46mip PC ever did.
-
- Granted rendering will be slower.
-
- Why not buy an A1260 board (with the 040>-060 lib patches,
- rendering is stunningly quick)
-
- I will be doing some animation soon for a Hospital video,
- (animated MRI images) I can edit these and produced proper
- field based interlaced Anims with overscan (of course) with
- Clarrisa 2.0 (I got this FREE on the front of a magazine)
-
- There are so meny jobs I've done recently, that I know I
- could'nt do If I had changed platforms (and I did think about
- it)
-
- There is'nt a worse computer than the PC, (o.k. maybee the
- Sword M5?)
-
-
- >
- > I want to use my system for 3D stuff and simple comms.
-
- 3D ---- No problems, buy Lightwave 4 and don't look back!
-
- Simple comms? whare have you been, IBrowse, AS225r, Amitcp,
- Mindwalk, voyager, AMIRC, AMFTP, AMIPhone, CUSEEME, FTP
- mount.... a lot of these packages are better than their PC
- counterparts.
-
- Simple indeed!
-
- Stick with the Amiga (And Mac for 30 pounds registration,
- approx)
-
- >
- > Any advice??
- >
- >
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