Sturdy amigas!

[FastRobPlus]

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I understand what you are talking about. I rather use an Amiga then a PC, because PC has very much problems with MS Windows. Even XP Professional doesn't work very well.
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This is a really odd comparison.  The Amiga is was mostly a closed system (same BIOS, similar chipsets, etc) Windows must run on near-infinite variations of hardware, much of it comodity-grade.  A better comparison would be to compare the Amiga to Pocket PCs or smartphones.



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I love to play with my old Amiga, but my Commodore 1084s monitor has some powering up problems, but the monitor gives sharp and good display when I bought it 10 years ago.
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Most 1084S monitors were made by Philips/Magnavox or Daewoo.  Basicly, you are saying that older eqipment seems to last longer than today's brandX commodity-grade eqipment.  

The moral isn't that WinXP is bad and Amiga OS is good.  The moral is: you get what you pay for.

[FastRobPlus]

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That's really strange. I've heard everyone say this about XP, yet, I've just had a new PC at work with XP installed and it's crashed more times in the past 2 weeks than my w2k box has in the past year. It's awful, I hate it. I'm considering installing 2k on there.
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I heard the same story from a friend of my Wife about 3 days ago.  He said: "Why did I try and install XP?  I was so happy with Win 2000!  XP crashes all the time!"

He took it to a friend who replaced components on his system part by part.  It was the power supply.  Now that he has a non-defective PS, Windows XP runs with no crashes.
The moral:  Everybody expects Windows XP to work in all situations, and it's the first thing to get blamed for crashes.
The other moral: commodity-grade components will bite you someday.

[FastRobPlus]

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Moreover, they say they like windows, which, as they say, is the best and nicest.

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Looks like a burning, unreasoning hatred of Windows is not required in order to be an Amiga enthusiast!

Could Amiga users be more than just mindless fanboys?  Shocking! :-o

[FastRobPlus]

Back on the topic of sturdy Amigas...

If you ever open up an Amiga and look at the components, it reads like a who's who of good component fabrication companies.   I even saw a Micron expansion bus on ebay recently.  

I don't know if you guys remember, but the Coleco ADAM and the Commodore 64 (in 1983) had the #1 and #2 highest failure rates among home computers.  They were manufactured very cheaply.  The Amiga was light-years better in terms of reliability - even the A500.  The real problem point for the low end Amigas was its power supply.

[FastRobPlus]

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k-disk wrote:

Guess there are a few Amiga-haters/traitors
on this site who are defending the PC with
heart and soul.
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Like I said, there are those who must hate everyhting else in order to promote what they are enthusiastic about.

Of course, k-disk might just be joking, it's hard to read that poker face...