Wow... This guy is proud of his A4000T

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Just to put a sense of reality into this, that's as much as or more than an 8 core Power Mac.  That's two 4 core Xenon chips running at 3 GHz.  With 9 GB of RAM and a 250 GB hard drive.  

Nice as Amiga is, we're talking about some serious computer power here against last century technology.  Amiga prices have lost all connection with reality.  It's a sad day.  The Amiga is now just a toy for the elite that can blow outrageous sums of money on things.  

I mean how do you even brag about it?  I spent four grand on a machine that has far less processing power than my mobile phone?  That's the reality folks, like it or not.

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Yeah, I guess I have a hard time with the collector mentality.  I come from the days when Amiga was the "people's computer" and provided more bang for the buck than anything out there.  But that Amiga is a long dead memory I guess.  I suppose the buyer of this 4000T will keep it in a glass cabinet and only turn it on to show it off.  It's more a monied elite who can throw lots of money at old machnes.

The seller made a mistake opening the box though, that peak probably cost him hundreds of dollars.

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Has anyone formatted a floppy disk in a PC in the 21st Century?  The bloody things hold nothing are unreliable and cost more than a standard CD.  But for less than 2 thousand US dollars I can burn a dvd, render a three d image, edit a 12 Megapixel photo,  design a newsletter with pictures, tables and graphs, process a podcast and edit an HD video on m Mac.  And if anyone of them crashes the others just carry on without noticing.  Oh, and if I need more power I can use xGrid and share the processors on my wife's and son's computers...

Oh, forgot to mention the webhosting, radio station in the background and serving a video to my Apple TV.  

And as far as power, the A4000 is rated at 150 watts for the CPU alone, not counting monitors - did you say CRT?  My iMac is rated at 120 and draws about 93 when stressed.

1994 technology is 1994 technology...

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amigaksi wrote:
>Has anyone formatted a floppy disk in a PC in the 21st Century?

Yes, me.  Simulated one and a real one.

>The bloody things hold nothing are unreliable and cost more than a standard CD.

If you had some efficiently encoded and unique software like I do, you won't need a CD-R/RW.  A floppy would be sufficient.  The CD-Rs are also unreliable-- they are more easily scratched than a floppy disk.  They should have put them (CDs and DVDs) in a case like floppy disks-- ahh, but that would be 1970s/80s technology.

And of course the real replacement for floppies in terms of storage are flash drives and network storage.  DVDs (and CDs) are mainly for backup and distribution of software and movies.

I held onto floppies until about 2000 when my (then) 2 year old decided that it would be great fun to pull that metal slider off...

Nowadays I carry a 4 GB pen drive on my keychain, that's about 2,777 floppies and it doesn't have a sliding door :lol:

>But for less than 2 thousand US dollars I can burn a dvd, render a three d image, edit a 12 Megapixel photo, design a newsletter with pictures, tables and graphs, process a podcast and edit an HD video on m Mac.

And your still not satisfied.  Otherwise, if I claim a twice the faster system and twice the storage that would not disturb you.

I expect to replace it with twice the system in a few years, that's technology for you.

>And if anyone of them crashes the others just carry on without noticing...

Unless one of the tasks happens to be spyware/virus infected then your HD/memory/network and consequent DVD/CD outputs are unreliable. :quickdraw:

I've een running a spyware and virus protector since 2001.  It has never gone off.  Maybe you're confusing it with an alternative OS that comes out of Washington...
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>And as far as power, the A4000 is rated at 150 watts for the CPU alone, not counting monitors - did you say CRT? My iMac is rated at 120 and draws about 93 when stressed.

So a PC laptop is better than your iMac then.

Simply responding to an arument about power consumption, the A4000 may have the computing power of a mobile phone but it consumes power like two or three iMacs...

>1994 technology is 1994 technology...

Yes, some of it unique that has yet to be topped.  I guess Einstein's theories are old technology too-- perhaps we should come up with better theories.

What has yet to be topped?  I can run rings around an Amiga  4000 for half that price.  It was Amiga that allowed me to dream in the late eighties, but it's Mac that fulfills that dream in the late naughts.