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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 10:56:42 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
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- Noah I Rosenberg (integral@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu) said:
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- >: difference in graphics updates, but there is simply no way around
- >: the fact that an 030 is butt-slow.
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- >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, 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).
-
- You're confusing the speed of the interface with the speed of the processor.
- Yes, the Amiga is responsive, but try doing a raytrace, decode JPEGs, pack
- archives, etc. and you'll see the 020s limitations. I find my 040 slow at times
- (generally when compressing my HD to backup with Quarterback), but the interface
- covers it up pretty well.
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- > I just ordered an 030/50mhz with 4 megs of fast ram.. by my
- >calculations I should notice about a 15x increase in speed, or so. I am
- >really gonna like having that puppy. Everything should run smooth as silk.
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- Except 3D graphics, image processors, PageStream 3... etc.
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