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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (finn)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- <314a226f.2247601@news.onramp.net> <4ijub3$8df@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 00:19:07 GMT
-
- >On 19 Mar 1996 04:39:56 GMT, tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
- >>In article <4ijub3$8df@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>, haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl
- >>(Harold Klink) writes:
- >>>dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>On 13 Mar 1996 00:23:20 +0100, kjgudim (Kjell Gudim) wrote:
- >>>
- >>>>>Uhm, excuse me, but are you saying that that is *not* the case for the
- >>>>>PC?
- >>>>>
- >>>>>A little while ago my father bought a Pentium 60 and was told that this
- >>>>>was an awesome machine... Now the machine is about as awesome as my 6
- >>>>>speed bike
- >>>
- >>>>Why? My P60 still runs at least as fast as the day I bought it, and
- >>>>if I wanted to I can put a Pentium 120 in there for ... what, $350 or
- >>>>so, with the latest and greatest I/O and interface and so on and so
- >>>>forth...
- >>>
- >>>Probably because the P60 did not achive the results that were expected from
- >>>that Machine (and/or the OS). Very difficult huh?! And now back to you:
- >>>
- >>>Why do you have both Peecees and MACS?! Because one of the machines does
- >>>not covering all your needs afterall, David?! Maybe you should have bought
- >>>an Amiga afterall. Really David, it's worth it! Oh David.....David....Have
- >>>you ever *TRIED* an Amiga recently David?! HAHAHAHAHA! Familiar question,
- >>>now isn't it David?!
- >>>
- >>>Just my 2 cents,
- >>>
- >>>Harold.
-
- >As usual, Harold, your responses are devoid of both context and
- >content. I don't own a Mac. I've said so repeatedly. The fact that
- >I know all three systems better than most people on here (when
- >considering total knowledge of all three systems, with several obvious
- >exceptions) might have some bearing on the fact that a few people
- >wrongly think I own a Mac.
-
- I know the Amiga, PC and Mac very well, we have a Pentium 100 in my bedroom,
- an Amiga 1200 '030 in the living room, and I worked on Macs at college. Out
- of the three, I prefer the Amiga by a long way. I don't have to listen to M$
- trying to sell me crap S-ware because I can't run it :). Don't take the fact
- that the PC is in my bedroom to mean I use the thing, my dad put it there so
- he could work in peace and quiet. I only use it for Doom.
-
- >>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
- >the record, I had an A3000/25 with 6M RAM, 44M Syquest, 100M
- >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
- >first came out.
-
- The 3000 still isn't the best amiga you could've had. You don't mention
- having a GFX card, and without a GFX card or the AGA chipset, I think the
- Amiga is a bit lame. But with... Nothing can touch it. My system is better
- than the one you had, and I am still upgrading it.
-
- >>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
-
- >Apparently you've never heard of the PowerMac, or the fact that Macs
- >cost half or (far) less what similar Amigas do...
-
- You do have to pay for quality you know. The best low-end OS on any system
- is worth paying for IMHO
-
-