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Re: Are you abanding Amiga?
« on: November 16, 2004, 11:46:22 PM »
I cannot see myself buying an Amiga One system, for a number of reasons.

One of the reasons is the cost...getting a MicroA1 would cost me £520, add on a 17" TFT monitor for another £300, a mini-itx case (with a PSU that works reliably with the motherboard...) would cost another £50, DVD -/+RW drive for another £50, and a cordless keyboard and mouse combo...another £50.

So that's £970 exc. delivery etc...call it a round £1000.

Now that on it's own isn't the biggest stumbling block...it is the lack of software that puts the biggest nail in the coffin.

I really cannot justify the spending of that much money on, essentially, for me, a hobby computer.

For that amount of cash, I want to be able to run a decent Office suite, use a modern standards-compliant web browser, edit video from my firewire digital camcorder, edit my photos etc. etc.

At the moment, I cannot see an A1 system providing me with the ability to do that as I would want to. Maybe that situation will change over time, but if I wanted to invest £1000 in a system - I would get a iMac G5 (to replace the iMac G4 I have at the moment...).

I've still got a couple of A1200s (Blizzard 1230 and 1260 equipped) which will more than do what I do on my Amiga nowadays...
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