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- From: kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey)
- 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: 15 Mar 1996 14:06:34 GMT
- Organization: Institute Of Studies For Advanced Amiga Usage
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- Karl Thomas posted the following:
-
- : minute Amiga users say "We don't need fast processors" and the next minute
- : you're bragging about Vapor-PowerAmiga.
-
- bragging? no, we are simply able to throw the sad "Your CPU isnt fast"
- argument straight back at last.
-
- : Right/ What Web Browser for the Amiga supports frames, JavaScript, Java,
- : ShockWave, RealAudio, a VRML broswer, cookies, and the myriad of other
- : Netscape plug-ins.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- exactly......the browser has many hacks that allow it to do
- this.....Netscape doesnt do it.
-
- : You're comparing Quake and Nascar to Worms? Why would anyone care about
- : either a 386 or an a500? They are both old and outdated. What
- : difference does it make when people are buying $1100 PowerMacs and
- : Pentium systems?
-
- not everyone is buying those systems for a start.....the user base is
- still 486's in the main. And quake isnt even out, so stop trying to use
- it as an argument. Fact is, game for game, the Amiga actually NEEDS less
- resources to do the same job.
-
- : You're bragging about this? For $1300 you can get a PowerMac 6116 with
- : 8Megs of RAM, a 500Mb Hard Drive, a good quality 14" monitor, a modem, a CD-ROM
- : drive, and loads of software
-
- "quality" and " 14" " are not designed to go into the same sentence.
-
- and so what about LOADS of software? most of it will be pack-in crap
- that you'll never run more than once. and the modem will be an outdated
- 14.4 that probably succeeds more 12000 connections than 14400.
-
- : get a dx/2-66 with all of the hardware you named for less than $1300 and
- : you would have a much faster system. Just look in Computer Shopper
- : sometimes.
-
- faster CPU, not faster system.
-
- : A dx/2-66 doesn't creep along at all. But if a dx/2-66 creeps, an Amiga
- : must run backwards.
-
- it runs back whilst going forwards.....multitasking you know ;)
-
- alan
-
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