Amiga vs PC

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There is no competition between Amiga and PC, that died with Commodore all those years ago.  Today people have multiple computers to do their tasks, plus tablets, mobile phones and the like.  It's a hobby.

Say you collected Model Ts, would you post a Model T v Holden Commodore thread?  No, the enjoyment you get out of your Model T is different to the utility that you get out of your Holden Commodore and a trip to Costco...

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It depends on what the purpose of this discussion is.  If the purpose is to feel good about the Amiga then we can talk about what makes us happy, but if the purpose is to try to find more users then we need to coat things in realism.  A handful of Linux ports are not going to convince anyone to buy an AmigaOS/AROS/Morphos machine.  The question needs to change from why do we use an Amiga to why would anyone with a molecule of sanity use an Amiga.  Two very different questions.....

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Everything looks better or worse in memory than it really was....

And this comment is about as reliable as his one stating a 5bit 15khz sample chip produces better quality than an 8bit 48khz sample chip...........and then argue it on the basis of a CD-ROM mastered soundtrack using studio hardware not the actual soundchip  lol classic comments from little arkhan.
 
1 IE was always iffy as hell compared to the likes of Netscape at the time, which is what most people used simply because IE was really that slow and buggy and rendered pages incorrectly at that time. As any web designer knows, you finish your site, then modify it so IE can render it in an identical fashion to how it already renders

2 Win95 had a notoriously famous world wide bug of a memory map as solid as a leaky old bucket when it comes to web browsing/emailing activities lol.

3 There's the Win95 GDI resource issue to compound that socket related leakage into oblivion problem with the effects of gradually losing GDI memory resource due to using graphically intense programs (for 1995 that is) like web browsers all day long. Result = crash city/loss of OS functionality = frequent reboots.

So it turns out you have no experience of how 'good' IE was originally in that time frame, and no awareness of two of the biggest reasons corporations found Win95 nothing but a toy OS for business applications lol surprise NOT.

Maybe it's time we ALL had a poll vote to decide if Arkhan should be banned, clearly the moderators here are going for quantity rather than quality as far as member numbers go on Amiga.org haha

As usual bullshit off-topic trolling has actually derailed an interesting thread, the simple facts are....

A1000 vs 8086/80186 PC XT etc  = slamdunk to A1000 on every possible aspect.
A1200/4000 vs 386SX/486DX ISA PC = grey area of swings and roundabouts.
£1500+ x1000 vs i7 latest gen PC = I think even here we've all seen how that went lol

Comparing today's PCs with souped up A1200/A4000s is about as useful as comparing an IBM XT with 128k ram and Hercules graphics card and PC speaker audio to a 512k A1000.

Now had you pointed out that something like an A500/2000 etc didn't have a serial port capable of utilising a 33.6/56k modem unlike your average early 90s PC.............

(above 3 examples compared on like for like timescales, PC OS = DOS+Windows of the time and price is similar for both items)

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This thread went the far side of pointless at least six pages ago, yet it continues to gather posts.....

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When the Amiga first came out, home computers were something special, you were almost a Geek just by having one in your home.  Print quality of most dot matrix printers was not up to typewriter (dad, what's a typewriter?).  Everything was expensive in terms of hours worked.  The current minimum wage A$569.90 (€397.70/£325.81/US$510.90) would have been an executive wage back then.  Yet the price of computers has come down.  In terms of hours wored computers have never been cheaper.

Today everyone has a computer in their home, kids have them in school.  Libraries have become computer stations that also have books.  It's a different world.  People don't tinker anymore, in fact on iPhones, iPads, iPods and to a lesser extent Android devices, they aren't allowed to.

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@amigaksi

What are you running that "run in XP" mode in Windows 7 won't handle?

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It appears that Homecraft Furniture AKA Commodore USA, are in negotiations for a license to the Amiga name, so you won't have to choose between PC and Amiga, you'll be able to buy an Amiga PC!

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Just drop the versus.  It's "Amiga PC" now....