Sold out for osx and wow

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I hope you didn't sell all of your Amiga stuff and kept at least one working machine, because you will miss it eventually.  I am back to being hooked on my Amigas after many years of Windows and a few on my Mac Powerbook.  I do agree that the Mac is far ahead of Windows as far as MY EXPERIENCE (Please don't start any flames from that comment).

I am going in the opposite direction  than you are.  I am interested in seeing how close to a "Modern Computer" I can get with my Classic A4000 w/Phase5 PPC/68060 running OS4 and/or MorphOS.  I know it won't compete speed wise or feature wise, but I want to see what the feel of the experience is like compared to those other, so called "Modern Computers".  I am going to thin out my Amiga collection and spend the money I make on more Amiga hard&software to push the Classic Amiga as far as it will go.  (PCI addon w/video card & TV tuner, USB, etc.)

After all, AOS 4.0 will be released in just two more weeks, right?

(if you don't get the two more weeks joke, you have not been an Amiga user long enough to remember it)

[amigadave]

Karlos wrote:
@Vic20owner

My 1.25GHz G4 eMac at work often crawls when running Mail, BBEdit, Firefox, Transmit and couple of bash terminals concurrently which are the absolute bare minimum tools I need to do my job. Occasionally I need to use XL to prepare data for my boss, or OmniGraffle to make diagrams. Unless I close down some other apps, it will literally show me the spinning candy mouse pointer anything from 10 to 30 seconds, in which time I cannot actually click on anything.

Typically I have to boot my machine twice a day at work. I am sure a hefty ram upgrade would help but I don't see it happening soon. My colleagues (non technical) use them just for firefox, mail and office, occasionally some other apps and they have many of the same issues.

These are already higher spec systems than the mac mini you intend to buy.

I thought the "eMacs" were the lowest spec Mac you could get, or maybe the same spec as the mini.  I would think any company that wanted to use Macs would invest in higher spec machines, specially for your position where you are running so many apps at once.  Tell them to get you a new dual G5 Power Mac @ 2.5mHz with 4gb RAM, that should fix all your problems and the prices should start coming down as they get ready to switch to x86, specially if you can find a used one.   :-D

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@ billt,

Virtual PC isn't great, but I use it on my 1gHz G4 w/1gb RAM Powerbook to run my PC CAD program and it is not too bad.  Faster than it ran on an old Pentium II @400mHz w/128mb RAM (I know that is not saying much, but it is very usable).