Sold out for osx and wow

[vic20owner]

Yeah I finally did it. I sold off the $800 worth of Amiga stuff I have collected and put it in savings. I spent $300 on a used 450mhz G4 with 1GB ram, monitor, dvd, zip, etc.

All I can say is wow.. it's everything I wish my Amiga could have done for me. it's not windows, it's not intel, and it does everything a modern computer should do and more... and I think it does it better than any of my XP boxes and linux boxes.  It already runs pretty fast for a 450 but Im going to drop a 2ghz accelerator in it... why? For fun.

Not bragging, not trolling, just sharing.  If you haven't found what you are looking for, consider osx.  It's a nice step from Linux, a jump from windows, and a huge leap from the amiga.

OSX will soon be released for intel.. but me? I like the PPC. It reminds me of my Amiga.

-vic

[vic20owner]

No way you can compare os 7,8,9 to OSX.  OSX is the best thing I've ever seen. The security and power of unix/linux/bsd and the convenience of a mac with the compatibility feeling of windows.  Everything is soooo well designed, there was very little learning curve. Coming from Linux, I find the power of the bash shell everything I wanted. I'm running my G4/450 as a web server for my kiteboarding forum (www.flkitesurf.com), watching dvds, browing the web and generally just screwing around with no slowdown. No hiccups, no choppy video, no slow page serving, nothing. Installing software is quicker and easier than anything I've ever used, including the amiga.

I tried really hard to use my amiga for daily tasks and found it completely useless by today's standards.  Windows was ok but always felt "messy".  

OSX is wonderful.  This is my slowest computer (others are P3/850mhz xp, P4/3.4ghz xp, P4/3ghz xp, P4/2.5ghz linux) and it runs smoother than all of them.  I find it painful to look at windows now... it looks like it was designed by the tele tubbies, video is always flakey, programs stop responding, and the filesystem layout is just a mess.

So yeah, I'm converted. I'm going to by a mac mini G4 ($499) as my next major computer purchase.

[vic20owner]

Agreed...when my system arrived (G4/450 sawtooth) it was so slow I couldn't even use it. I was sort of pissed off. Then I formatted and reinstalled Panther, and now it runs smooth as butter.  I'm running a message forum (php+mysql),browsing the web and watching dvd's at the same time, with a few shells open of course. It hasn't even hiccupped on me once.  My P3/800 barely plays divx, and my P4/3.2ghz will hiccup if I'm doing something else while it's playing.  For some reason this machine doesnt. I even played a dvd while watching video on the web... both played nice together. 450mhz not so bad...

I transferred all of my unix code and utilities over and all work fine.  

I'll probably drop a Sonnet cpu upgrade in it. Sure I could buy a mac mini for the same price, but I'm not going to be able to get 300Gb of storage in that little thing... plus I like my zip drive for transferring data to my daughter's mac.

So anyway.... going back to windows or linux just feels messy.  I've been using computers for 20 years and working as a windows/unix software developer for 15 years.  OSX is my favorite OS so far no doubt about it.

When it goes x86 I'll be running it.