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Re: "Alternative" platforms as primary computers
« on: September 17, 2006, 09:16:15 AM »
Used my A1200 (040/240Mhz 603e ppc+bvision,128MB RAM)) as the main machine till 2004, before i bought my first pc running server 2003.

At the beginning of last year i had my old A4000 back for a while (sold that one in 2003 coz i needed the money)
The machine was claimed to be dead but after cleaning the dust out it worked fine again, it was a A4kD in a elbox power tower with CSPPC (060+233 604e),mediator,voodoo 3 3000 PCI,cvisionppc 128 megs of ram.

I also re-installed os3.9 and was still amazed with speed of the OS it out preformed my 2Ghz AMD(XP 2600+) by far on everything except for processor heavy tasks (rendering/3D gaming etc).

But with remote desktop my Amiga life was more fun then ever and the pc became nothing more then a terminal for browsing (firefox) and file server (FTP mount dir) :-D

When i really had to return the A4k and got back to the pc was a shock!
Got used again to the supirior multitasking,booting starting programs on the Amiga.

I really hope some affordable OS4 hardware comes quick now because i really mis a fast Amiga.

Window$ still sucks like it always did......slow,buggy, unstable and have to re-install it to much...  :madashell:  
Amiga is addictive coz it is fun to use

A1200 Elbox power tower, BPPC 040/25+603e 240 Mhz, 128 MB RAM,Bvision,Zorro IV&Zorro IV PCI busboard,X-surf,Buddha IDE
A4000 Elbox power tower,CSPPC 060/60+604e 233Mhz, 128 MB RAM,CvisonPPC, AriadneII
A600+Vampire V2,A604N+RTC,SUM USB keyboard controller,Topolino with logitech wireless keyboard&mouse