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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: stefcep2 on August 22, 2008, 11:11:14 PM
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I recently entered a magazine competition to win a HP ultra portable laptop by writing about my personal computer- which happened to be my A1200 and WON!!!!
http://apcmag.com/hp_2133_competition_winners_announced.htm
review 9, My Girlfriend by stefcep
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Congratulations! :-)
I love HP laptops. I've owned 5 of them. I sold the first 2 to co-workers as I upgraded, my Pavilion 7000 is used to play MP3s at my barbecues, my wife currently uses my old 8000 and I recently got a 9700.
Our EHS hand picked up one of those ultra portables and he loves it.
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Wow that is great, congrats! What a better subject? Not many :-)
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Many congratulations indeed :pint:
Can't say my Amigas have ever won me anything or earned me a penny. Got me years of moaning and nagging though :roll:
Anyway, a laptop is a great add-on tool for the Amiga. I'm using mine at this very moment to convert music videos into a format and quality that my A4000 233Mhz can play in Amp2. Both the laptop and A4000 can read the same 2GB Compact Flash card thanks to fat95 in the miggy :-)
:cheers:
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Congrats! Nice article and nice prize too!
I also saw the competition in APC, considered something vaguely Amiga-ish for about a millisecond, then my own laziness genes kicked in!
Good work!
- Ali
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Excellent job and article. Congratulations.
And I think this is the line that clinched the win....
At parent-teacher night his Multimedia studies teacher asked: "How did Alex get Powerpoint to do all that?" How indeed?
:-) Brilliant.
Plaz
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awesome :-D great story
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congrats!
hey, i'd love to view that scala mm400 presentation about france. if its not too much hassle private message me so i can view it :) :-D
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Wow this was a great read for me. i loved the stick it to Mac fanatics about the toolbar part, lol. Good info and great story bro. I wish just one of my 5 amiga's would win me something:). Enjoy the laptop and great job. Cheers!!!
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When I was at school, back in 1993, our art department had a couple of Amiga A500s with Vidi Amiga digitisers, graphics tablets and all sorts. I did freehand illustrations in DPaint3 of still lifes while my classmates used traditional paint and canvass!
My actual exam submission included loads of other stuff I did on the Amiga.
When I was a prefect, for a parents open evening I set up an Amos program that showed digitised photos of all the art department staff, interspersed with examples of my work.
Meanwhile, my own A1200 was set up in the Geography department (in my dad's classroom - he was a teacher at the school)! showing a Vistapro animation of mount saint helens before and after the mountain blew up.
And while all that was going on, I was in the music department demonstrating the Apple Mac midi equipment and rocking out in my school band.
At lunchtimes, on rainy days, my friends and I used to go into the art department and play Kick off 2, speedball 2 and jimmy white's snooker on the Amigas...
Those were the days!
Cheers,
AndyC
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very nice story, congratulations to your son also! :-)
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Thank for the congrats.
I've posted a few times on the APC magazine forums and you basically have the PC fans, the Mac fans and the Linux fans and me trying to tell them basically, in terms of usability, configurability, efficiency and putting the user in control of his machine there's nothing like Amiga. Maybe a bit nostalgic but the Amiga is from the time when computing was fun
And my son is over the moon about his new laptop. We bothcan't wait to get our new toy.
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Great article indeed. The Autoconfig ability of the Amiga was awesome. Nothing to this day is as simple as that feature, and this is over 10 years later. I miss that 5 second bootup, too. The DMA was so efficient and added much to the quickness of the computer. And the Powerpoint question made me grin.
And now efficiency takes a back seat to bloatness built upon ever faster processors.
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Excellent article, glad you got a laptop out of it too.
Rich