vortexau wrote:
Wayne opinioned that: it's 8 year old hardware with a designed shelf-life of 5 to 7 years
Balderdash! The "designed shelf-life" usual with x86 maybe!
Amigas are made of sterner stuff .... Like my 1989 A2000HD where only DF0: has died!
Which proves nothing really. Sure, there are plenty of old Amigas out there that are working fine, but equally there's a whole bunch of them that have long since failed. It's not just the basic systems, but all the additional cards etc one gets to rely on in their Amiga. These are failing at an increased rate, and replacing them is simply not financially viable for most people.
Generally speaking Wayne is right. As for the build quality of Amigas, this tends to vary quite a bit from model to model, and even between revisions. Some are very sturdy, and some are complete pieces of #@$%.
