How Many here also use a mac

[amigadave]

Count me as one of the members here that uses Macs, Amigas and Windows PCs.  Over the last few years, after buying my first Mac (the last of the Titanium series PowerBooks), I am a firm believer in the Apple brand and prefer it over PCs and Windows.  I feel safer (justified or not) using a Mac for email and Internet browsing than on a Windows system, and I like the way it does some things for the user without having to configure everything.  Like wireless networking, you turn on a Mac and it asks you a couple of questions and then does the rest for you.  Maybe XP or Vista has progressed to this point also, but I have not experienced it yet, at least not like I did 5 years ago on my PowerBook.

If all the programs I need to use were available on the Mac (or better a new fast Amiga), I would never use a Windows machine again.  Just because our legal systems have failed to convict Bill Gates & Co., it does not lessen the crimes they have committed against the many who could have given us unknown innovations.  :madashell:

[amigadave]

@Wayne,

Those two replies contain more text than all the other posts in these forums I have seen from you over several years combined.  Very well put and I must agree with your reasoning.

I too say to hell with both sides and will not purchase a "Next Generation Amiga", be it AOS 4.x, MorphOS, or AROS until it is at least as functional as my MacBook Core2Duo, which easily runs OSX, XP, and WinUAE.

I don't know if a new Amiga will be developed and manufactured in my life time.  Because to me, a new Amiga would have to be a quantum leap above and beyond what is currently thought of as a personal computer, just like the original Amiga was when it was first conceived by its inventors.  For me, a new Amiga would redefine what a personal computer is capable of and create the opportunity for new ways to think about computing and what is possible.

So, until and unless that miracle happens, I will stick with my collection of "Classic Amigas" and use "other" computers to accomplish the work I need to do.

Right now, the Mac is the best engineered computer and best user experience available.  I can only dream that the rest of the world will eventually wake up and drive Microsoft to compete and actually innovate and create something original.

If I could, I would never buy another Microsoft product, and I would find a way to do all my work from alternate OSes, and remove Windows from my hard drives.

(Sorry for my rant)