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- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Message-ID: <jon-2903961651350001@161.102.22.120>
- From: jon@isiselec.demon.co.uk (Jon)
- Date: 29 Mar 96 11:33:06 -0400
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- In article <4i15ek$lcf@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>, haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl
- (Harold Klink) wrote:
-
- > barrett@radiks.net (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >
- > > Sorry, but IMO that "Tower A1200" is also overpriced. For one thing,
- > >it has an INCREDIBLY weak 68020; and second, graphics cards for Zorro III
- > >are VERY expensive. For the price of a bottom-of-the-line mediocre
- > >graphics card for Zorro III that uses slow DRAM, there are graphics cards
- > >available for PCI Macs with a true 128-bit graphics architecture (read:
- > >VERY fast) and 2M of true VRAM, usually expandable to 8M.
-
- Don't bother telling him, he wouldn't know speed if it bit him. Try
- telling him that a PowerPC can't be clocked down as low as a 68xxx CPU and
- that 68xxx CPUs were originally designed for washing machines.
-
-
- >
- > MAc, Mac,. fuck off with your MAC. We don't want MACS and besides, most
-
- Spot the dick. You pillock.
-
-
- > Amiga users can get a MAC for $0! Can you?!
- > Expendable to 8 meg?! Is that all?! and 128-bit architecture alone
- doesn't mean
- > it is fast! You seem to be the kind of gouy that thinks "The higher the
- > number, the better the results!" Well, in some cases that's true.
- > CyberVision 64 is a pretty good GFX card, up to 1600x1280x256colours.
-
- That is nothing in comparison. You pillock.
-
-
- > (If I remember correct) and 24-bit (32?) in lower modes....
-
- 32-bit you pillock.
-
-
- > Personally you think an A1200 is overpriced, I think a any MAC costing more
- > than $99 is overpriced, simply because it lacks the OS the Amiga has!
- > (And more)
-
- Then... your a pillock
-
-
- >
- > > BTW, how much is a complete "Tower A1200" system, including a Zorro III
- > >graphics card? It's easily possible to put together a complete PCI
- > >PowerMac system, including a VERY VERY fast graphics card, 16-bit stereo
- > >full-duplex sound, a 75Mhz PowerPC 601 CPU, 8M of RAM, a quad-speed CD-ROM
- > >drive, ethernet, and a 500M SCSI hard drive, for well under $2000.
-
- That is actually a very impressive spec. What size screen goes with the
- very fast graphics card though? Anything less than 17 inch would waste the
- card.
-
-
- >
- > Again, I don't need a MAC. I want an Amiga.
-
- You pillock.
-
-
- >
- > Harold.
-
-
- Oops, sorry. I forgot that you can't have reasonable discussions in an
- Amiga news group. You pillock.
-