Dave Haynie (lead engineer of C= Amiga) opinion on Amiga Successors

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leirbag28 wrote:
I think most would choose an Amiga with 040 VLAB and picasso set up correctly over a Pentium II any day.

Heck.....I personally would choose an AGA 030 Amiga over the fastest Pentium III

First of all you are going to be hardpressed to find a P3 these days much less a P2.  My pentium 4 plays back 4 simultaneous uncompressed streams of D1 video while mixing them, thats something you cant do with your 040 VLAB system or even a much better Toaster/Flyer.    (though it will do 2 streams of D2 at a time).   The Laptop that Apple released yesterday edits uncompressed HD video, it costs $2K and it comes with software to edit HD, for $500 more you can upgrade to one of the best HD editors on the planet and edit in your hammock in the backyard and then stream it wireless to your customer for approval.  This is what we need to overcome if we are going to become a "graphics" computer again.   And I just don't see Hyperion/Eyetech getting us there.
     -Tig  

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 Commodore did not sell motherboards stand alone unless it was a replacement part.

Actually as someone who bought thousands of motherboards from Commodore, I'm going to have to disagree with you on this point, however everything else is pretty much right on.
    -Tig