home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sn.no!not-for-mail
- From: oddhs@sn.no (Odd H. Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 12:49:25 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4hufk5$6kr@sinsen.sn.no>
- References: <4hrvsl$7ev@sinsen.sn.no> <Do0E5n.5Fw@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sinsen.sn.no
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : It's a good step. But it's still a *SLOW* cpu by modern
- : standards. Don't tell me that it doesn't matter because the OS
- : is leaner and faster - it won't help your day-to-day graphics,
- : rendering, spreadsheet, database, etc. applications. For
- : those, CPU power is a REAL issue. If you're just dragging
- : icons around the workbench all day, sure, you don't need it.
-
- If you are a power-user and are into those things, you probably
- already have something faster and won't be needing the new Ami...
- I'm just saying that for the CASUAL user/hobbyist who are not
- into heavy rendering, or databases/spreadsheets with hundred
- thousands of entries it's probably enough.
-
- Also (like PC), if it's too slow you can upgrade it.
-
- : > If you don't like it, buy a gfx card.
-
- : Which card? Presumably the single slot in the new Amiga is a
- : custom slot (or possibly an A4000 CPU style slot). How long
- : till we get stuff that will fit it?
-
- I'm presuming the new Ami includes an easy and affordable
- zorro slot ugrade path.
-
- : > can expect to see Power Amiga's available early 1997!!
- : > I wouldn't have dared to dream this possible.
-
- : I still don't believe it. How many people are working on it?
- : Are they working full time? What resources do they have? What
- : is the hardware status? What if the third party companies
- : developing the hardware go bust before it's finished?
-
- There are no garanties for anything in the world today, you
- just have to have a little faith.
-
- : And if they rush out the hardware in early 1997 with no PPC
- : software available, they won't sell anything (except those
- : developers stupid enough to have believed them all along).
-
- Don't you think AT know this ?
-
- : Erm... You can turn A500/A600/A1200 and probably every other
- : Amiga into tower systems too with third party products.
-
- With much difficulty and not at all cheaply.
-
- I'm hoping the motherboard is designed so it can be put into
- any PC tower case. They come cheap these days.
-
- : Did AT announce they are doing a tower themselves, or are they
- : just saying third party companies will be building towers for
- : them (like they have for the other Amigas).
-
- They didn't say. Hopefully it will be much cheaper than the
- current 3rd party solutions.
-
- --
- % Odd H. Sandvik %% email: oddhs@sn.no
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- % Acceleration into temporal space continuum now begins...
- % Alpha 7, acknowledge... Alpha 7, acknowledge...
-