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- From: jamesm@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
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- Date: 11 Mar 1996 03:51:09 GMT
- Organization: Northern Territory University
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- G'Day Karl Thomas, you wrote:
- : integral@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Noah I Rosenberg) writes:
-
- : >Reg Martin (mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:
- : >: Matthew Hunter (mhunter@shadow.res.cmu.edu) wrote:
- : >: : On Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:59:37 GMT, Reg Martin (mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:
-
- : >I refuse to believe that. I use an 020/14mhz and I am rarely finding myself
- : >bothered by it's speed.. I wait more for the Pentium-90s that they have in
- : >the computer labs here at school..and the Centris 650's.. lets not even
- : >talk about those.. it takes like 5 minutes for photoshop to load
-
- : Are you running anything like PhotoShop on your computer to compare it with?
-
- Hows about, ImageFX running on a 10Mb Amiga 4000/030 v a 16Mb PowerMac 6100/60
- with 16Mb and 32Mb Virtual Memory (typical University configuration)
-
- ImageFX boots up in about thirty seconds; Photoshop can be ready to work in
- about two minutes. (BTW, I`m running ImageFX v1.5) Hell, even if I start
- AdPro and ImageFX at the sametime, I end having both loaded in about two
- minutes!
-
- And if I give the Amiga the same amount of physical memory as the PowerMac,
- then I even get to have a paint package such as PPaint v6.1 open at the same
- time.
-
- This is on a 25MHz 030. Running it off of the 40Mhz 040 gives a hefty speed
- improvement..
-
- : >, and the
- : >machines are so bogged down with virtual memory that sometimes just
- : >accessing the menu bar can be a cumbersome task.. and Netscape.. netscape is
- : >slow and boggish in it's own right, it's jerky, it loads weird, and it has
- : >crashed every time I've used it this semester (that is about 35+ sessions).
-
- Should try using on the Uni`s UNIX terminals.. It crashes the terminal if
- you happen to have a page that has too many images on it! I guess 4Mb of
- graphics memory isnt enough for these machines..
-
- : Whose fault is it that they are trying to run PhotoShop without enough
- : RAM? Does anything like Netscape exists on the Amiga that you can
-
- IBrowse compares well with Netscape < 1.12
-
- : compare it with? It never ceases to amaze me how Amiga users flame Macs
- : about slow bloated apps by comparing it to low-end Amiga crap. If you
-
- So whats worse: low end Amiga crap that is fast and efficent, or high end
- Macintosh crap that is slow and bloated?
-
- : want to talk about slow try putting that Amiga into a non-interlaced
- : non-flickering graphics mode and see how it compares.
-
- Okay, so you want me to put my 4000 into a SUPERHIRES 64 colour screen mode?
- Wow. Gee, and no flicker
-
- So what is it you want to talk about?
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