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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <1996Mar21.234934.53501@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 21 Mar 96 23:49:34 -0600
- References: <4imljc$7p3@daily-planet.nodak.edu> <1961.6716T777T2346@higgins.ak.planet.gen.nz>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
-
- In article <1961.6716T777T2346@higgins.ak.planet.gen.nz>, finn@higgins.ak.planet.gen.nz (finn) writes:
- >>tempest@netins.net wrote:
- >
- >>: machine is a much more serious machine. He is like so many other lame
- >>: ibm/mac users.. they think Amiga 500 when they think AMiga.. they have no
- >>: clue to how good an Amiga really is. They don't understand that Amiga
- >>: 3000/4000 with fast processor, graphics card etc.. blows away ibm/mac crap.
- >
- >> When I think of Amigas I think new 040 an 060 A4000s. And you know
- >>what? The hardware still sucks compared to Mac. :-)
- >
- > When I think fo macs, I think of PPC machine, and guess what? The OS still
- > sucks, even after the shameless borrowing from the Amiga OS..
-
- Shameless borrowing, whats that? Isn't AT going to borrow the Mac emulator
- tech.? When I think of the Amiga when I had one, the Apps were horrible except
- for the games at the time..
-
- >
- >>: Not to mention we
- >>: can run his lame mac software on our machines if we choose..
- >
- >> At a fraction of the speed of Mac/PCs costing much less.
- > Yeah, but can you run an Amiga on your mac?
-
- Yea, you can..The Amiga emulator for the PowerMac..
-
- >
- >>: I think this fact
- >>: is what really gets him going in these areas.. he spent all that money on a
- >>: mac and we can run his software at the same speed on our Amigas, with less
- >>: crashes than him I bet :) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >> Sheesh! Get a clue--even low-end PowerMacs are faster than 060 Amigas.
- >>(Disclaimer for the mentally challenged: By PowerMacs I mean currently
- >>shipping models, even though even the slowest PowerMac ever built is
- >>still probably as fast/faster than the fastest Amiga model.)
- >
- > just wait for 1997... Plus, not all macs are powermacs
-
- Wait for what? Overpriced and underpowered PowerAmigas with hardly any native
- apps...
-
- >
- >>: This drives him crazy and causes him to post in
- >>: these areas probably. Afterall, if he was happy with his apple mac, he
- >>: wouldn't be here in these areas at all. This is without a doubt true,
- >>: why else would someone waste their time on another machines newsgroups
- >>: if they were perfectly : happy with their crap mac.
- >
- >> Is this your way of trying to get attention, or are you really stupid
- >>enough to think that's a sound line of reasoning? If the former, get a
- >>shrink--if the latter, just join a monastary and spare the gene pool.
- >
- > Well what are you doing here then?
- >
-
- Unwinding and nursing a Molson..
-
-
- PowerMacs does more...costs less...
-
- GREETINGS..
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