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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 01:49:40 GMT
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- On 10 Apr 1996 16:05:03 GMT,
- wahlmann@banach.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
- wrote:
-
- >In article <4kf3n1$rim@nyx.cs.du.edu>, kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) writes:
- >
- >|> >>>software emulated Macintosh. I have tried Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on it and
- >|>
- >|> >>100% compatible is not correct (ie - run RamDoubler), but it does run
- >|> >>old 0x0 apps very well.
- >|>
- >|> >yeah, but pretty damn close.
- >|>
- >|> and pretty damn slowly...
- >
- >What are you talking about? It's even faster than the equal powered Mac.
-
- Which is, by today's standard, DAMN slow. And we won't even mention
- the Amiga's horribly slow graphics.
-
- >|> Really. What's 30 megs of hard drive space when you can get a gig for $250.
- >|> That's less than $8 of hard drive space.
- >
- >These same idiotic statements over and over again. Why not waste space and time,
- >it's so cheap.
-
- My time is worth far, far, far more than the disk drive, and Works (or
- Office) makes me faster. In the beginning, one of the major reasons I
- had the Mac emulation on the A3000 (thank God for the de-interlacer!)
- was for Mac Word 4.0. It completely blew away everything the Amiga
- had, and it made using my machine, rather than the University's PCs or
- Macs, a viable option. I could even write stuff to a disk and print
- it on the University's lasers; it was great. No Amiga let me (easily)
- do that, and I certainly couldn't edit files I'd written on the Amiga
- on the PC or Mac without going through several translation options,
- usually kludgy. A IIci was a fine machine for Word 4, and so was my
- A3000. Now, a IIci doing just about anything (with modern, high end
- software) is a bad joke.
-
- >Why the hell do PC/Mac advocates give so much on benchmarks?
-
- Because they're real?
-
- >Benchmarks are absolutly senseless when it comes to efficiency, user
- >friendlyness, responsiveness.
-
- Agreed the Amiga is responsive. It can do lots of things while
- rendering, and that's A Good Thing.
-
- >Processing power is not the one and only thing with a computer system.
-
- Agreed, but for a rendering shop, it's -damn- close.
-
-