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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: ElPolloDiabl on January 18, 2011, 08:23:37 AM
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If there is an Amiga item you want, money is never a barrier for you. Or do you really have to choose carefully and often settle for something less useful or less powerful?
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No problem with money.
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The options are to limited in this poll.
You don't need to be wealthy to own whatever Amiga gear you want. Just check frequently the known sites and hit it :)
Apart from that, except from the wealthy, you forgot the EPIC category "El'Cheapo" !!!
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It is not just whether you can afford buying amiga parts, but also if also if you can justify buying amiga parts. When I first came here I was all crazy about the Amiga and childhood memories made it easy for me to spend quite a good amount of money to get my A500+ up and running again. However today I can't justify buying an accelerator card for my A500+ at around 200EUR to 300EUR when with the same amount of money I can buy a new motherboard god knows how many times more powerful then the A500+ with that accelerator card. I do not mean this as a bad thing. Just want to make my point that justification is sometimes more troublesome then affordability.
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The options are to limited in this poll.
You don't need to be wealthy to own whatever Amiga gear you want. Just check frequently the known sites and hit it :)
Apart from that, except from the wealthy, you forgot the EPIC category "El'Cheapo" !!!
I thought about more options, but there is really a lot of categories to cover everyone, so I decided on just a simple poll.
I could ask: What percentage of your computer and smartphone budget do you spend on Amiga?
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What about "I'm not rich or poor I'm just crazy?" :crazy:
You also forgot Pancakes :madashell:
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My vote would have to go for dumbest poll ever. Not only the question itself, but the idea of sharing my finacial status on a forum site. Not just this but people who really have money tend not to talk about it.
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I was wealthy buy now I own all this Amiga stuff I'm poor :roflmao:
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Sorry has to be said, but your polls are always really badly thought out. Never enough choices to cover even the most basic possilbe common answers.
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an odd poll, I wouldn't consider myself poor but I'm certainly not wealthy so I dont know how to answer you poll?
Put it this way I dont know if I can justify spending £1,500+ on a Amigaone x1000, I think I might be able to save up that amount, but dont know if a hobby machine is really worth it specially when I would be spending more on it than I spent on any computer I have ever owned, so i just dont know if it really worth it, specially with vat and fuel going up I have a feeling this year going to be a bit tight on money, but i do hope still to get a OS4 machine this year, if I had more spare cash maybe a x1000 could come my way just have to see how the year plays out. Does that make me wealthy?
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I usually let my accountants worry about it, what what...
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I'm just recently out of college and working a fairly low-paying job (because everything else about it kicks ass ;),) so I'm by no means a wealthy patron of the Amiga arts. On the other hand, I'm not a huge collector or a hungerer for power, so I don't actually need that much money. Every piece of my Amiga setup was had for around or below $100, and the rarest thing I own is just the DKB RAM expansion for my accelerator, so I haven't really had to pour tons of money into it.
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While I am by no means wealthy, I do usually find a way to own the Amiga gear that I really want. So given the limited choices in this poll, I had to choose the wealthy as the better of the two.
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It is not just whether you can afford buying amiga parts, but also if also if you can justify buying amiga parts.
Pretty much, this. If there was something I *REALLY* wanted, price really doesn't factor into it. I've owned several thousand dollar computer components before, and could again. If I really wanted a Cyberstorm system, it's well within my grasp. I just know I wouldn't really use it for much, and that money would be better spent elsewhere.
So, while I could buy any part I wanted, I'd need to have an actual use and purpose for it that couldn't be accomplished much better and easier by other methods. ("I always wanted one" doesn't really cut it.)
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very strange questions for this poll, more options for best results.
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Money isn't the issue. Justifying it to my wife is the hard part.
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I have a wealth of Amigas!
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The options are to limited in this poll.
You don't need to be wealthy to own whatever Amiga gear you want. Just check frequently the known sites and hit it :)
Apart from that, except from the wealthy, you forgot the EPIC category "El'Cheapo" !!!
El Cheapo here.
Not poor, I'm just super cheap, and not just with amiga stuff.
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I would love to hear the motive behind this "poll".
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Im not rich, but I do have spare cash occasionally to pick up some things. It helps that my job has a pretty good bonus potential each month
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I'm freaking swimming in cash over here!. My house is just like that Bugs Bunny cartoon where Daffy is doing the backstroke through all the gold. I'm going to buy 10 Amiga X1000's when they come out and use them as door stops!
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This Poll and Thread justifies why most other forum sites do not allow all users to set up Polls.
I am seriously wondering why I bother visiting here any more.
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@amigadave
+1
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This Poll and Thread justifies why most other forum sites do not allow all users to set up Polls.
I am seriously wondering why I bother visiting here any more.
Just "ignore" ElPolloDiabl. As mentioned earlier in the thread, he comes up with a lot of wacky nonsense.
edit: you might want to ignore me, too!
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My "play" money is limited, what with mortgages, kids, travel etc all competing for some of my cash, so I try to get the most "bang for my buck" as well as be able to try out new toys.
For example I just bought an Android tablet to play with for what amounts to small money in the Amigaworld. It'll give me a nice portable UAE platform and a place to test out apps as I want to start developing for Android as well as iOS. I love Amiga but I love the 21st Century technology as well.
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I think the poll needs a "WTF has it got to do with you?" option.
Just my thought.
Though it need to be said to the OP, enough of these pointless polls.
Gaz
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I believe I'm wealthy in many ways, faith, love of family, and health. As to a wealth pertaining to green backs, that is totally speculative from one day to the next as my expenses with 3 kids in school, all socially active and two driving parent subsidized vehicles weigh very heavy on a very tight budget which does not lend itself to many Amiga purchases.
I afford my Amiga hobbies by sacrificing in other addictive areas of expenditures such as crack, meth, alcohol, weed to name a few. So, occasional I can afford to obtain some hardware or software to play with.
Not sure if I answered the poll directly as to my prior comments so I will do so now.......
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:laughing:
Thanks for reminding me of my current situation. Back to the man cave. BYE.
The Dawg
Note: Oh, not mentioning my wife was by design, as I have found out doing so can affect my health, which by the way is one of my wealthy commodities at this time.:)
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I think the poll needs a "WTF has it got to do with you?" option.
Just my thought.
Though it need to be said to the OP, enough of these pointless polls.
Gaz
Exactly.
Where's the "None o' yer feckin business!!!" option? ;-)
If you must know I'm a student, so, guess. :-) I've had to be pretty frugal to own the items I have now so... might even sell my 1260 cos it's not getting much use, that's about the most i've paid for an Amiga item ever.
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This Poll and Thread justifies why most other forum sites do not allow all users to set up Polls.
I am seriously wondering why I bother visiting here any more.
+1
I'm thinking of taking a break from the site as I feel the content has gone down hill recently. Such a shame too.
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The options are to limited in this poll.
You don't need to be wealthy to own whatever Amiga gear you want. Just check frequently the known sites and hit it :)
Apart from that, except from the wealthy, you forgot the EPIC category "El'Cheapo" !!!
To blow £1000 on an A1200/4000 PPC accelerator to play Wipeout 2097 (something you can do with a $5 Playstation) you DO have to be loaded/crazy/both.
Would I sell one of my cars to own an A4000 with a PPC card to run OS4.1 classic? Nope the lobotomy was cancelled at the last minute so I have the car still and no PPC A4000 :)
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On the dole and about to be evicted from my house for good measure. Might have to sell my Amiga gear... Watch this space....