launch an anti apple protest

[Lando]

Acill wrote:
Nothing wrong with Apple at all. I happen to love my Macs as much as my Pegasos II.

Me too.  The only thing I don't like about this iBook is how slow it feels compared to Pegasos and MorphOS (even thought the Peg is supposedly slower).  But I still love it.  I wish something like Apple's iLife package was available for MorphOS.

[orange]

I hate macintosh. Its stealing market from us. But Amiga will beat it someday, just like Atari.

Have a look at average mac user:

http://strangecosmos.com/content/item/5975.html

 :-)

[kevh100]

Its stealing market from us.
 :-)

LOL! Hey Orange, EVERYTHING is stealing market from us! (if we are even really in it). We're not directly in the current market until the next Amiga(like) OS (any flavour of it) matures and becomes a real alternative to mainstream users and current offerings. I'm sure some users have stopped using their Amiga's for games and started using their PS2 or GBA. How come no-ones attacking them with the same zeal! A friend of mine sold his A1200 to partly fund a new washing machine. Oh No! All boycott Zanussi because my mate left the Amiga for them

Kev

[Framiga]

@ david

more Apple sold= more PPC sold

more PPC sold=more PPC produced

more PPC produced=less PPC price

ergo . . . it is a good thing for us also ;-)

Bye

[restore2003]

And to add this to framiga`s statement:

more ppc amigas(micro & xe) sold = cheaper products in the future

[BigBenAussie]

Errrr... I'm no economist but....
The more PPC demand, with limited supply, the greater the cost.

But I do get what you're saying...Without the demand there would be no PPC. Still.....

[amigamad]

 1 Overpriced
 2 cheaply made
 3 poor quality look on ebay for faulty macs loads of them  
 4 about 5  games availabe.
 5 a pc is a quarter of the cost and is cheap to upgrade, with a mac you have to upgrade by buying a new one .
 6 software has to be bought online

they used to be the graphics computers now most things are done on a pc.

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[mikeymike]

Ok guys, go easy on the flamethrowers!

[poweramiga2002]

well maybee we should ask how many ppl who have an amiga do they also owen a mac as well
cause out off all the amiga ppl i know most have an apple as well as an amiga
but only 1 has a pc
and quite a few have just bought the new imac g5 as have i

[Casper]

david wrote:
Unfortunately, since Apple has exclusive rights to the G5, Amiga users cannot have the current hardware. Also Amiga will always fall behind ht eMac is no one cares, like you two.

I'm not sure they have exclusive rights to the G5 processor (I assume you mean the processor). It's about who gets priority when the processors are produced. Apple buys thousands of processors at one time, the Eyetech and Genesi only a few hundred at best. The "Amiga companies" are just not particularly valued customers until they start to buy large volumes.

[JonoPike]

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[JonoPike]

Give me a break man...I didn't write anything wrong!
I was just giving my opinion about Macs...

[SyrTran]

@david

Apple's "control" of the PPC is due solely to the fact that they go
through a guesstimated 190,000 G4s and 160,000 G5's per month*.
Eyetech and Genesi combined won't see that many processors for many
years.


*numbers estimated from
here.

breakdown (numbers are approximate):
80,000 Imacs and Emacs/month (assume 50/50 split, stats are for G4
Imac, assumes G5 sales will be similar)
60,000 Powermacs/month (two G5s each)
80,000 Ibooks and 70,000 Powerbooks/month (all G4)
unknown number of Xserves.

[HopperJF]

amigamad wrote:
 1 Overpriced
 2 cheaply made
 3 poor quality look on ebay for faulty macs loads of them  
 4 about 5  games availabe.
 5 a pc is a quarter of the cost and is cheap to upgrade, with a mac you have to upgrade by buying a new one .
 6 software has to be bought online

they used to be the graphics computers now most things are done on a pc.

- edited by mikeymike - trolling

Yeah I dont blame you for editing, mikeymike as 80% of this post is utter tripe

1. Overpriced? Theyre cheaper than these new Amigas you are all talking about
2. Cheaply made? Thats why they have won many awards for best computer designs...
3. Poor quality? More durable than most PC's.. so I doubt it. No viruses for a start and as for physical build theyre one of the best built computers I have ever used, and that is a lot of machines over the years  :-)
4. 5 games? Multiply that by a thousand, double it and times it by 3
5. You can upgrade all Macs..
6. No it doesnt.. even GAME have started stocking Mac games in stores.

[adolescent]

@HopperJF

...
3.  No viruses?  B.S.  There aren't as many, but there are Mac viruses and worms.  
4.  30000 games?  More B.S.  The Mac library isn't near that, probably <1000 games for the platform.
5.  Really?  How do I upgrade an iMac to a 17" screen?  Newer video card?  Etc.  Sure, the high end Macs are upgradable and you can stick a CPU card in most of them but the consumer models are not upgradeable.
...

[Lando]

adolescent wrote:
@HopperJF

...
3.  No viruses?  B.S.  There aren't as many, but there are Mac viruses and worms.  
4.  30000 games?  More B.S.  The Mac library isn't near that, probably <1000 games for the platform.
5.  Really?  How do I upgrade an iMac to a 17" screen?  Newer video card?  Etc.  Sure, the high end Macs are upgradable and you can stick a CPU card in most of them but the consumer models are not upgradeable.
...

I've never once been infected with a virus or spyware in 3 years of using Macs online through ADSL connections.  When using my PC I was infected within minutes of going online, and a weekly AdAware scan usually found 30-50 items.

If you want to use a 17" screen on your iMac just plug in an external monitor.

You can upgrade an iMac with a new CPU, hard drive, memory, optical drive.  If you want to completely upgrade your old iMac you should just sell it on Ebay (Macs hold their value extremely well, unlike PC's) and get a new model - it would probably work out cheaper than buying all the bits yourself, even if that were possible.