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- From: rross@axelon.UUCP (Raymond Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200
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- Message-ID: <rross.004b@axelon.UUCP>
- Date: 8 Dec 92 17:43:02 PST
- Organization: Superboard Two BBS
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- The argument over which machine has better graphics-- the A1200 VS. a spruced
- up Clone (don't even say IBM, I don't now anyone who even has a real IBM) is
- incomparible. I use both platforms and have to say that the Amiga outperforms
- the CLONE in graphics capabilities several times over. Windows is a
- memory-hungry slob compared to Inuition and all the products I've seen for it
- are limited to public-screens which makes everything terribly slow.
-
- The point is, the person harping about all that neat over-the-counter Clone
- junkie add-on-attempts is wasting his/her money because unless it's going on a
- local bus there's no way in Hell that it can compete with the local-bus speed
- of an Amiga's graphics system no matter how many pixels you can write to the
- screen. Clones are for people who want to run business applications and buy
- add-on cards. Amiga's are for people who have warm hearts and a desire to
- create with a personal computer.
-
- I was at Comdex and I saw all the Clone stuff-- there was a great deal of it,
- but you know it's like a big goulash or something. There's too many companies
- out there trying to do the same thing and the end-user suffers for it. The
- only companies that offer the kind of support everybody should have are
- Commodore Business Machines, IBM, and Apple Computer. If you have a Clone,
- then your cut out-- all you get is a wacky attempt by a foreign company to
- produce a operators manual and for most people that isn't enough.
-