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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 07:50:20 -0700
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie) writes:
-
- >PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- >: PM 7600 will use 120 mhz 604. Price is around $3000 for a configuration with 16
- >: megs ram, 1 gig and 4x cdrom.. Currently a A4000t has a price tag of around
- >: $2800 for a slow 040!
-
- > MHz speeds don't make a *WHOLE* computer system.
-
- You're right. But the PowerMac is faster, cheaper, has better sound, better
- graphics, better applications, more storage, a CD-Rom drive, etc.
-
- >Slow 040!!! For Christ sake- it's what you *DO* with those MHz thats
- >important.
-
- I can do a lot more with a 601 than I could with an '040. But if you like
- wasting your time waiting for calculations to finish that's your business.
-
-
- >The Mac's wasted them on the LC's/ Performas of the time. The
- >A4000 usesthem well.
-
- Right. THe memory bus on the 4000 is pathetic and so are the graphics. Sure
- seems like a waste to me. Care to actually post benchmarks comparing similar
- apps on similarly equipped Macs and Amigas. Do you want to put that
- Amiga in a non-interlaced, non-flickering graphics mode and watch it crawl?
-
-
- >Unless you want to do V.Complex maths - MHz & clock
- >cycles etc. don't mean a great deal - and if I needed to do that sort of work,
- >I'd by a SPARCstation or something!
-
- Typical Amiga user..."We don't need fast processors".
- >Why oh Why must people insist on comparing MHz and Clock speeds. It's
- >starting to get annoying. It was amusing at first listening to people boast
- >about their new xxx Mhz machine, whilst we in the know quietly chuckled to
- >ourselves thinking what ignorant fools they are making of themselves.
-
- Right Amiga users are the only ones who are delusional enough to think
- that people don't want faster computers. It's really kind of pathetic.
- Amiga use use to brag about having faster hardware at an affordable price.
- Now they make excuses for overpriced mediocrity.
-
- > Now,
- >it's getting annoying. If you want to argue about chips take it do
- >alt.tech.geek.bigHertz or something. This is a System group, talking about
- >the whole picture not one part of it!
-
- Okay let's compare the whole system. Where do you want to start price, sound
- quality, application quality, graphics, storage, or processor speed?
-
-