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- From: elric@tnp.com (Jeff Barr)
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- Subject: Re: NewTek SHIPS Lightwave 4.0/Amiga!
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 07:59:07 GMT
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- On Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:38:19 -0800, Mike Schnabel
- <schnabel@crow.ewd.dreo.dnd.ca> wrote:
-
- >First off, acording to the benchmarks I have seen, about 5-6 times faster
- >would be more accurate. I could be wrong and am just picking nits I know,
- >but your point is well taken.
- >
- >However, development boards are being shipped that will upgrade any Amiga
- >to PPC. This is about a 4 fold increase over pentium speeds. I realize at
- >the moment it is vaporware, but Phase 5(makers of the accelerator)
- >normally doesn't start and advertise something that isent going to end up
- >existing. The main reason for AMIGA lagging as be the lack of new
- >machines being produced. Even at the moment 50MHz 060 A4000 are available
- >in limited numbers. These easily match the pentium in speed.
-
- See my other reply for stats on the '060. And that's compared to a
- P100 (which I just upgraded my system to for $315 from a DX4/100,
- can't even get an '040 for that), P166's are now available, with
- P180's available shortly, nearly doubling the original speed increase.
- The Amiga won't actually be viable for rendering again until the PPC
- cards come out. (Please note, that by "viable" I'm in no way implying
- that you CAN'T render on them, up until the release of LW4 for the PC
- I was still using my '030 A3000 to render, but that in a professional
- environment where time is money, nobody WOULD).
-
- > They are a
- >bit more expensive, but do not require all the expensive ad ons that a
- >pentium requires.
-
- Just out of curiosity, what expensive add ons do you think a pentium
- needs? Up to 128 megs of ram can be simply inserted into the onboard
- simm sockets, 2 2 drive IDE controllers, 2 high speed serial ports, a
- parallel and floppy port all come standard. Like I said, I just paid
- $315 for a P100 (and that was with the motherboard). Sure, I had to
- buy a new graphics card for the PCI bus (since my old one was VLB),
- and I spend another $65 for pipeline burst L2 cache, but after I sold
- off my old motherboard, graphics card, and I/O card (which I no longer
- needed), the upgrade cost me $160. Upgrading an A4000 to an '060 costs
- almost 10x that (well, less if you sell off your old processor
- module). I still don't see ANY "expensive" add ons...
-
- >I Agree things looked bad for Amiga a year ago, but things are starting
- >to look up. I for one will hang in there for awhile longer with my 33MHz
- >040 A3000, with true 24bit at hi res (752x480) at 30fps that I use to
- >make video renderings for the local cable station.
-
- Great. I love my Amigas (still have 3, including my old PAL A1000),
- and I'd like to see AT go places with it. The PPC Amigas are a step in
- the right direction, provided they don't arrive too late to the point
- where they're again underpowered, overpriced, and undermarketed like
- the AGA Amigas were (and to think that we could have had a better
- system available sooner with the A3000+ if CBM's mismanagement hadn't
- killed it off...).
-
- Flat on my back in the middle of the Information Superhighway
-