In these troubled times...

[Floid]

...Let's be glad we aren't using Macs.

[GreggBz]

Hmm..
My recent and freqnet visits to www.windowsupdate.com
kinda of make me wish I was using a Mac!!!

Good thing Amiga OS does'nt have to atomatically check for updates every time I use my A1200 to putz around on aminet.

All modern and popular operating systems are SO bloated... except for perhaps PalmOS.

[kealist]

I'm using a mac, reverting to the old .kext file did me no good.    Looks like I will let my mac sit useless until they release another upgrade.  BLah

[Argo]

Thank God, We're in a Bowling Ally!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

All modern and popular operating systems are SO bloated... except for perhaps PalmOS.

My Amiga and my Zire 71 are the only machines I can go through the entire directory structure, and know what every file is - because I put them all there myself.   :-o

[DoomMaster]

I much rather use a Macintosh then a PC.  The older Macintosh computers were built better and they were higher quality then most of the Amiga computers.  The Amigas were more powerful, but the older Macintoshs were built better.  The original "small-footprint" Macs were part of a World wide standard that only used the highest quality parts.  This is the reason why they were so expensive back then.  Since most people were NOT willing to pay for quality, Apple lowered their quality standards to compete with the rest of the consumer level junk that was being sold.  Commodore did the same thing after the release of their FlagShip computer- The Amiga 2000.     :-D

[AntonioX]

Well iam useing a mac with OSX 10.2.8 and i have no probs, with it  I had more problems with my amiga than I ever had with my mac, dunno if its only me but look at my post on probs with an amiga monitor that i can not even use  :-(

[TallAmigan]

gotta iMac, PC and MANY Amigas....

Still prefer the AMiga....
 :-D

[lorddef]

@Doom Master

You really are a nutbar  :-P

[jeffimix]

Now Now, one does have to admit the amiga 2000 was built like a friggin tank.

[Targhan]

Yes, the A2000 was build like a tank, and weighed about as much too.  I remember toting that fat old girl around to shows and the like.  One could throw a disk trying to haul one of those around.

[amigau]

I don't think the macs were 'so expensive' because they were so 'excellent' quality - I think it had more to do with going to a 'closed box' system, upmarket pricing from PCs (e.g. they HAD to charge that much because they were selling fewer computers at first vs. the Apple II/III and had to stay in business, after all) and immediately leaving behind their hardware-hacker consumer base that used the Apple II, which then realizing that apple no longer cared about them, moved to the PC because they could again hack the guts of the computer.

The Apples were better then comparable PCs of the same era but I don't know if they were better than any comparable Amigas, save maybe the Amiga 600, because I've been running a webserver on an A2000 for over 2.5 years with virtually no interruption and virtually no problems, either - that's quality for you - how many 14 year old Macs (and definitely PCs of that era, ha!) can say the same?

I think Amiga500's were pretty darn durable too, they just weren't that expandable without paying quite a bit of $$ at the time...

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com