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- From: mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 21:59:31 GMT
- Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd.
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- Shane R. Monroe (darkuni@nwinternet.com) wrote:
-
- : CONS: Incredibly crappy marketing, users who WON'T UPGRADE THEIR DAMN
- : SYSTEMS so we are all stuck playing vanilla A500 games from floppy,
- : companies that won't FORCE the users to upgrade (there are notable
-
- I have a serious problem with this. Demanding that everyone
- spend huge amounts of money on something because you want software
- that requires faster and better-equiped machines is absurd. The
- software for Windows requires such monstrously fast machines often due
- to poor programming more than anything else (and perhaps a lack of
- standard chip sets). If you recall, in the earlier days of the Amiga,
- one of its big appeals was that it cost quite a bit less than the
- Macintosh and IBM clone competition (and was also better in just about
- every conceivable measure). That's what got many of us into Amigas in
- the first place. However, this just isn't the case anymore. I'm not
- going to spend many hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year on my
- computer just so others can have more, fancier, expensive software. I
- use almost entirely freeware anyway because I can't afford the
- outrageous amounts of money that much commercial stuff costs. Besides,
- some of us have other hobbies that require funds, like audiophile
- quality stereo systems :-)
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- Matt Harrell Amiga 1200 running AmigaOS3.0
- Lansing, MI U.S.A. CSA 12 Gauge 030/882RC@50MHz/SCSI
- mharrell@sojourn.com 2MB chip/18MB fast RAM
- 240MB IDE hard disk
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