Amiga 1200 versus Atari Falcon?

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Jiffy = Falcon was better on some parts, A1200 better on other parts.

Yeah, not the least of which: the massive difference in available software! lol

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The DSP blows away the 7 years old Paula. You could easily play MP3 with it... which required a 040 or even 060 with the A1200.

One could argue the point of playing mp3's at all though. So to many of us, that's quite a useless feature to expect of a computer right there. Any old computer with a CD-ROM can play music. With much better quality of course AND you can truly multi-task while listening

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And you are right. If you want to run OSX, a G4 is not the hardware you want to use (of course I don't even have OSX installed).

What, what WHAT?!?  lol

Is this a misprint? OSX (nearly ALL flavors) run perfectly fine on G3's, G4's AND G5's of course. I have a 1.1ghz G3 Powermac running 10.4.11 that runs great in millions of colors even. And both my G4 laptops (iBook and Powerbook) as well as a another Powermac G4, at 450mhz runs Tiger fine also.

What I didn't like was running Leopard on a PowerPC based Mac. Th Finder experience *did* suck, but was more than tolerable if I really cared to use it - which I don't. And thanks Apple for ditching us by NOT finishing support for Leopard in the form of that Intel only Snow update  :mad:

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BTW - Why are you taking offense to my dismisal  of OSX when tone's commeny's on Apple hardware were much harsher?

No offense taken  Was just surprised to hear OSX rippage on machines it was designed to run on is all. I haven't had such bad luck as you with 'em. And come to think of it, the latest version of Safari screams on my machines. I normally don't look forward to updates on older systems, but Apple's been rockin' on the browser front. And certainly... bet MorphOS on a nice G4 is the makes for a kick ass and super responsive experience. I just haven't had 'the pleasure' yet. Patiently waiting for MorphOS to come out for my G4 iBook and 2.1ghz G5 iMac. When that happens, it'll be bedtime for Bonzo and will give me an excuse to purchase a Quad-core 27" iMac    

Oh and I get what Tone was saying, just that I apply that sentiment to all things WinTel. Not an obsessive Apple groupie at all (really not). Just prefer to work on/with machines that work as advertised. That's why I don't get too upset when people rip Apple stuff. To each their own.

Now, speaking of an OS that I don't like running on minimum specs, that award would surely go to AmigaOS3.9  

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Their failure was in not fully developing future models. Sticking a faster processor in it or adding a lame video enhancement with no other improvements was bogus.

Well, I wouldn't call merging OCS/ECS with a FF/SD "lame", but Atari made the same exact mistakes in not developing their 8-bits either. Adding a little extra RAM here and there. Changing the case design. Yeah, there's some real advancements for 'ya! Each incarnation of the ST's weren't much better, but there's definitely evolutional retardation to be witnessed in both camps. Personally, I feel the beginning of the end for both companies was when Tramiel left Commodore. In one fell swoop, that move doomed both Atari AND Commodore. Amazing it took them as long as it did though - which might say something about the Amiga's resilience. Either way, I'm starting to think the Illuminati were a part of this crippling consumer choice. :lol:

Lame ass bean counters cost us the personal computing crown. We had a much better processor and the companies using it failed us. Its hard to believe that the perpetually kludged X86 has become the processor of choice. How many design revisions of that crap have we seen just to make it tolerable and the systems are still huge resource hogs.

Couldn't agree more