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- From: enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk (john enger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Internet bundle
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 15:05:11 GMT
- Organization: BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Message-ID: <4ffnr7$q8u@is.bbsrc.ac.uk>
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- In article <9602022031.AA003sp@hectortd.demon.co.uk>,
- Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- > >I have this horrible vision of a load of people posting here in a few
- > >monhths time saying, "I bought this Amiga so I could get on the 'net
- > >like my mate/neighbour etc. can on his/her PC, but it sucks, I can't
- > >do too much without getting out of memory messages. I'm gonna get rid
- > >of it, and buy a PC" :-(
-
- > Personally, I think an A1200 is a lousy machine for web surfing. That
- > is, an unexpanded A1200. An 030 would be nice, so they can decode their
- > GIFs and JPEGs, and MPEGs if they happen to find any.... Of course, more
- > ram would also help... I remember when I still only had 2 megs of ram in
- > my A1200, I would constantly run out of ram using MUI and AMosaic. I
- > ended up moving t: to my sys:t to save some ram. Now, the browers are
- > bigger, and so is MUI. This just boggs down the system even more...
- > However, if you don't care about web surfing, I'm sure an A1200 is
- > great for e-mail, ftp and irc... :) I wonder if it's got enough ram to
- > load all of the net surfer software in ram simultaneously??
-
- I agree, a vanilla 1200 *is* a lousy machine for web-surfing...
- A plain 14Mhz '020 1200 is just going to be too slow for web browsing - and
- its the web that sells the internet. Newsgroups, ftp and irc come later.
-
- But, the 1200+ with its rumoured 40Mhz '030 and 4Mb of RAM would be pretty
- damn good... lets hope they do a 1200+ surfer pack. Now *that* would sell
- a bundle! (no pun intended!)
-
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- A1200, 40 Mhz '030, 2+4Mb RAM, 80Mb HD, 1960 MSync Monitor. ///
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