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- From: crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com (Shane Kuntz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 22:28:11 GMT
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- Sender: crkuntz@sgiis4 (Shane Kuntz)
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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.
-
- The Mark V from Phase V runs $900-950.
-
- An 060 will run any 68K based mac software faster than damn near any Mac.
- On PPC code of course the Amiga can't compete. But I'd rather run 68K
- software at light speed since it is the *vast* majority of Mac software
- rather than run a limited amount of PPC stuff very fast and 68K stuff
- slower.
-
- The benchmarks I've seen on the 060 vs 040 have the 060 roughly 3 times
- as fast. Does the new crop of PPC's run 68K software at 3 times the speed
- or even twice as fast as the 68K macs? I think not.
-
-
- Shane
-