Any Apple Quadra Users Here?

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Relax... maybe he wants to know if the 040 inside of that could be used to repair his GVP accelerator  :-D

I mean, what else would you do with one of those!   :crazy:

I have used one, but never wanted to afford it. Holy cow were they expensive. Still used an Amiga daily when that overpriced hunk of burnin' love came out anyway. lol

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I guess they are about the same in performance as an Amiga.

I believe the Mac did not catch up (and stole from) the Amiga until the early-mid 2000's. Mac (and PeeCee) was still a pile of steamy {bleep}e until the very late 90's-mid2000's, performance wise. And I for one, would still argue, that they haven't caught up yet and are heading the PeeCee way(investigate the OS3.9 dock to the current Mac OS taskbar litigation for one example).

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Jameson and Son wore off, but not before they ganged up on me!  :idea:

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I totally agree with Crisisdog... Mac not becoming useful until OSX, etc. And about 10.6 not supporting PowerPC... that's fine by me. As I said in another post, I've noticed major slowdowns in everyday usage since 10.3. 10.4 was pretty good. Probably the best of the modern systems IMO. 10.5 sucks big time and adds nothing useable for the tradeoff in speed. I especially HATE how long it takes for the Finder to tell me things about files I could care less about or do not need to see in the finder. I'm talking about how the various "info" is loaded in the pane. AmigaOS simply knows how to handle hardware and doesn't trip over itself - but we've always known that  :-)

@Methuselas:

How are you getting OSX.xxx on the Toshiba if not by DVD? Was it a real pain?

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recidivist wrote:
 Let me remind the Apple bashers that Apples are still being sold by Apple,unlike Amiga.

Apple users didn't have to wait 15 years between production of hardware:A4000 to SAMep.

 Apple has, and continues to make a profit!

I agree with much you said, but conversely, I'd be willing to bet there are umpteen more Amiga legacy users (for whatever purpose) than "legacy" Mac users. Especially lines such as the Quadra, classic, etc. And Amiga users didn't have to wait 15 years between production... we've been happily using our gear for all this time  :-)   MorphOS, Sam, Pegasus and the A1 are all bonuses for us! lol

And Apple making a profit... you can thank the iPhone and iTunes for that. Those two important concepts are what is carrying every other concept made by them, including their PC's - which hardware and software wise, are receiving less and less care as they focus more on the other products.

Further, what or how many 3rd party company of Apples are still making hardware for their ancient systems? Unless I'm wrong, I count none. Compare that to the support the Amiga gets. GVP, Creative Computers, etc. There is a lot of value left to squeeze out of Legacy Amiga computers. Most olden Mac's are used in peoples tech museums (if they weren't thrown away in the first place) and are worth diddly-squat comparatively.