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- From: finn@higgins.ak.planet.gen.nz (finn)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:25:47 GMT
-
- >tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
- >: machine is a much more serious machine. He is like so many other lame
- >: ibm/mac users.. they think Amiga 500 when they think AMiga.. they have no
- >: clue to how good an Amiga really is. They don't understand that Amiga
- >: 3000/4000 with fast processor, graphics card etc.. blows away ibm/mac crap.
-
- > When I think of Amigas I think new 040 an 060 A4000s. And you know
- >what? The hardware still sucks compared to Mac. :-)
-
- When I think fo macs, I think of PPC machine, and guess what? The OS still
- sucks, even after the shameless borrowing from the Amiga OS..
-
- >: Not to mention we
- >: can run his lame mac software on our machines if we choose..
-
- > At a fraction of the speed of Mac/PCs costing much less.
- Yeah, but can you run an Amiga on your mac?
-
- >: I think this fact
- >: is what really gets him going in these areas.. he spent all that money on a
- >: mac and we can run his software at the same speed on our Amigas, with less
- >: crashes than him I bet :) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- > Sheesh! Get a clue--even low-end PowerMacs are faster than 060 Amigas.
- >(Disclaimer for the mentally challenged: By PowerMacs I mean currently
- >shipping models, even though even the slowest PowerMac ever built is
- >still probably as fast/faster than the fastest Amiga model.)
-
- just wait for 1997... Plus, not all macs are powermacs
-
- >: This drives him crazy and causes him to post in
- >: these areas probably. Afterall, if he was happy with his apple mac, he
- >: wouldn't be here in these areas at all. This is without a doubt true,
- >: why else would someone waste their time on another machines newsgroups
- >: if they were perfectly : happy with their crap mac.
-
- > Is this your way of trying to get attention, or are you really stupid
- >enough to think that's a sound line of reasoning? If the former, get a
- >shrink--if the latter, just join a monastary and spare the gene pool.
-
- Well what are you doing here then?
-
-