25 Greatest PCs of all time - Yes, Amiga made the list!

[glitch]

Here's another article listing a few of my favourite models:

PCWorld 25 Greatest PCs

See what you think!

[weirdami]

Neat.

They're using "PC" to mean "personal computer", which is odd nowadays because "PC" means "those IBM things", which is lame. I saw an episode of X-Play the other day where they reviewed Lemmings for the PSP and said that it started out as a "PC game". Sheesh and a half.

[Damion]

Pretty cool, but where's the C64?

[MarkWatson]

The Atari800 (baby Amiga) made it, but not the C64:-)

Mark

[Matt_H]

-D- wrote:
Pretty cool, but where's the C64?

Definitely. The C64 should have been on the list. It holds a Guinness Record, damnit!

[adolescent]

Having an Alienware in there and no C64?  Sounds like they're on the take.  :-D  Also, the Pet deserves some love there also.  

[dandelion]

Whoa. VERY US-centric. Where's the Acorn ARM powered machines? The Speccy? Tsk. I don't know. Went in to PC World for the first time ever today, loathed the god-awful place.

[leirbag28]

All this does is confirm to me once again.......that the so called "Experts"  Don't know what they are talking about and are misinformed................we certainly know that if they Truly were experts..how can they have missed the Commodore 64 and the fact Amiga should have been wayyyy higher on that list?

Im careful to believe any  so called "experts"  perfect example are those "Bible Experts"  from National Geografics, 20/20  CNN and such programs who amazingly know nothing at all about the Bible....never even done enough research, and talk as if they were more educated about it than any Pastor!

If you know what I'm talking about, it's the same in the Computer world.......when we Amigans are watching someone else talking about how much they know about Computer history, and never even used a Commodore64 or an Amiga before..........and often they say "an Omega what?"

the C=64 is top selling computer of all time!  how can one not know?


People just love to follow the flow if the world.........and just trust so called "Experts"

that list is pretty much rubbish!............well...........at least they mentioned the Amiga..............but probably for the sake of appearing to know haha.....I have seen people do that kind of stuff ya know! :-)

[Hyperspeed]

Oh, for crying out loud...

The Amiga ranks 7th on the list of 25?

And what is an IBM ThinkPad and Sony Vaio doing in there? Hey, why not put in a photo booth and a cash machine while you're at it!

Just out of curio... does anyone have at hand the sales figures for each Amiga model? I'm curious as to why the C=64 sold 20m+ and the Amiga range only 6m...

:inquisitive:

[LoadWB]

To me, computer rankings should be discriminated against by their originality, ease of use, and so forth.  IMHO, computers which run Windows are all the same.  There's nothing special about a Sony Vaio versus an HP versus a Dell -- commercially they run the same OS, so other than package deals, there is nothing to set them apart.

Criteria should include ground-breaking technology, not the same rehashed crap over again.  The various Ataris, Apples, Commodores, Amigas, Sinclairs, and so forth... these computers brought forth various revolutions.

[justthatgood]

Geez, it's just a list.  There is no reason to take all the stuff all seriously.

Yes, it's just a list on a website comprised of data from other people on the internet. I usually take things with a pillar of salt at times.

[LoadWB]

justthatgood wrote:
Geez, it's just a list.  There is no reason to take all the stuff all seriously.

heheh, from the /. blurb:

Clearly this subjective and arbitrary list is subjective and arbitrary!

:python:

[TjLaZer]

I think what they were trying to do is include the #1 ranking computer of a manufacturer, so the Amiga was Commodore's best  success (as in technilogical breakthroughs, not sales figures!, plus they do mention the Commodore 64 in the Amiga writeup) and the Atari 800 was Atari's (haha ST)  BUT with that said they Apple has more than one nominee ?!?!?

And yes get the damn think pad out of there! WTF!!!

[odin]

These #? of all time lists are so useless and boring. Almost on par with this post.

[rockape]

Hi,

Unfortunately this is how History is re-written.

eg: "Quote And the four-voice stereo sound chip (Paula) provided speech synthesis"

thats very wrong, tis Four Channel Stereo not Four Voice

Regards, Michael

aka rockape