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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <1996Mar23.102829.53523@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 23 Mar 96 10:28:29 -0600
- References: <1996Mar11.221045@cantva> <1233.6645T1144T27@Th0r.foo.bar> <0099FBB4.0D960DE1@netins.net>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
-
- In article <0099FBB4.0D960DE1@netins.net>, tempest@netins.net writes:
- >>>Harold, he probably had an Amiga 500 0.8 mip machine and thought this was what
- >>>Amiga's were like in speed and performance. A500 is not bad but 040/060
- >>>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. Not to mention we
- >>
- >>As usual, you Amiga advocates guess when you can't find facts. For
- >
- > Sorry Acorn, I didn't know what machine you had exactly, I assumed you had
- > a Mac still.
- >
- >>the record, I had an A3000/25 with 6M RAM, 44M Syquest, 100M
- >
- > Ok so you had a 5 mip machine, is this suppose to be alot better than a 0.8
- > mip machine? You never owned a Top End Amiga then, you don't know what you
- > are talking about, now we know. :) Thanks for letting us know that you
- > are clueless about the Amiga's abilities and why.
-
- Can't afford a top end Amiga..Way overpriced for a slow 040 box..
-
- >
- >>ESDI->SCSI drive, 105M Quantum, 210M Quantum, 52M Quantum, and various
- >>other drives while I had the machine. And I had an A500 too - when it
- >
- > Was having many variuos hard drives suppose to make you more of an expert?
- > on the Amiga?
- >
- >>>can run his lame mac software on our machines if we choose.. 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 :) This drives him crazy and causes him to post in
- >>
-
- So Marathon and Powerpoint is lame software?
-
- >>Apparently you've never heard of the PowerMac, or the fact that Macs
- >>cost half or (far) less what similar Amigas do...
- >
- > Yes I know of Power Macs, acorn, but most mac software isn't made for a PowerPC
- > chip, and even the Mac OS itself is not fully using the PowerPC chip, so you
- > can't really compare a Power PC performance with a mac computer's perforance
- > can we. And this still does not change the fact that Amiga's run Mac software
- > perfectly, in some cases even better than a real mac can.
- >
-
- 1,500 native apps...You obviously have not looked at PowerMacs.. Are you
- intentionaly being stupid?
-
- Whats a real Mac? There are many models at performance and price point.
- Please identify the Mac model you are referring to..
-
- > Cost of a mac or ibm computer doesn't mean shit to a person that wants a Real
- > Computer. If you are a clueless sheep, then your averge crap box ibm is fine,
- > but if you want a real computer with no hazzles that gets the job done better
- > and cheaper than mac/ibm, Amiga is the way to go. You must remember that the
- > Amiga is a far nicer machine/OS than ibm's and mac's put together. If it wasn't,
- > everyone would of jumped to ibm/mac a long time ago. There is a reason why
- > people have Amiga's and can't stand mac's/ibm's.
-
- Amiga a real computer thats main utility is to format a floppy and play an
- Atari 2600 style game... No thanks..
-
- >
- > I personally will buy an 060 soon for my Amiga, and as soon as the PowerPC 604
- > Amiga's come out I will buy one of those too, no matter what the price is.
- > I want quality, not cheap crap that I want to throw out the window everytime
- > I have to use it.
-
- Quality..More like a scam..PowerMacs are of higher quality than any Amiga model
- that has been released..I've owned about every Amiga model except the A4000..
-
- >
- > There also must be a reason why you must keep reading/posting in Amiga areas.
- > I think you know that ibm's and mac's suck and you wish they ran like a slow
- > Amiga can even, let alone a fast Amiga. If you truely were happy with your
- > crap box machine, you wouldn't be here to begin with. You just being here
- > tells everyone that your machine sucks.
- >
-
- No, just for entertainment and nurse on a Molson..
- >
- >
- >
-
- GREETINGS..
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