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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Message-ID: <1996Mar26.121241.53604@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 26 Mar 96 12:12:41 -0600
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu> <4htrh3$qld@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4j98ig$3f2@nyx.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <4j98ig$3f2@nyx.cs.du.edu>, kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) writes:
- > tempest@netins.net writes:
- >
- >
- >>Amiga users are having fun using their Amiga's, they are not waiting for
- >>anything. They already have what they need. Amiga users have never been
- >>like ibm or mac where you are desperately waiting for a faster processor in
- >>the hope that it will actually make the crap os work right.
- >
- > What is this adversion Amiga users have fast computers? I never remember
- > Amiga users saying this when the Amiga was about on par with PC's and
- > Macs. No we want faster processors so we can do more or the programs
- > we have can run faster. Are you really saying those people who use
- > Amigas for graphics wouldn't like faster processors?
- >>
- >>Amiga has always had quality applications. You are clueless on this point.
- >
- > Compared to Excel, WordPerfect, Quark Xpress, Netscape Navigator?
- >
- >
- >>I can get an 060 Amiga 3000 with gfx card for $2000. That is a great
- >>price and an awesome machine. And it even can run mac software :)
- >
- > New? An '060-50Mhz processor in an Amiga only makes the Amiga run twice
- > as fast as an '040-28 (according to Amiga Shopper) and the cheapest one
- > costs around $1400. But then you still can't run Mac software half as
- > fast as the current crop of Macs being sold and you can't run the increasing
- > number of PowerMac only apps.
-
- And the PowerMac 7200/75 is now $999 and includes a 4x cdrom...
-
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