What still makes Amiga superior today?

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It silly to compare an '80s OS with an '00 OS.  OS's today have different demands and run on far more powerful equipment.  We're all here because we like the retro look and feel, it's fun.  The Amiga lost the superior title a decade or more ago.  

It's a hobby, it makes me happy because it takes me back to my Uni days, before I had the weight of running an IT department, raising a family of my own, mortgage, car payments etc, etc.  It's a simpler time in my life.

I turn on my Amiga and I'm back at Uni and those two Japanese girls I met at Uni are, well, ummm, well that's another story....lost in memories here.....

[persia]

I do miss the power of the Mac command line when using an Amiga.  I miss Xcode tools where the wole operating system is there for me to use.  But I think you are right the Amiga has such hardware limitations that you have to be clever to make things work and there's no Xcode, you have to figure out how to do things without help.

The Amiga is like a Volvo, you need to get real friendly with it because you don't know when it will break and you have to fix it yourself because the only repairman is in another town and you would have to mortgage your house just to speak with him.

[persia]

Cars don't need automatic transmission, air conditioning or heat, power steering, disk brakes, etc.

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Yeah, I can drag an app out of the Applications Folder on a Mac and put it in say iTunes music folder and it will work, but why in the name of the bugbladder beast of trall would I?

My Mac happily users all eight of it's processors (2 quadcore xeons)  and will happily use my wife and son's processors as well.

The Amiga takes me back to my youth, that's all it does that my Mac doesn't.  Really unless you've taken up residence in 1989 that's about the only thing that you can say.

[persia]

You know what's neat?  Install OS X, hook a firewire cable and copy all applications, settings and documents automatically!

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1. Because it doesn't support more than 25% of what modern OS's support.
2. Really?  So it can switch between 4 pages of 1600x1200 screens at the push of a mouse?  Display a picture of all currently running apps and allow you to choose between them?
3. I can make Linux, OS X and even MSWindows look pretty much how I want them to look, including a retro Amiga style.
4. Maybe because nobody else has them...  Don't quite get your point.
5. Every OS multitasks today, they all are pre-emptive with memory protection.  I've had apps crash and burn and calmly go to the Apple menu, click on force quit and they are gone.

Let's be realistic, it's retro computing, it's like restoring and driving old cars, it's not about superiority.  It's a hobby, it's fun, but in the end we still use the people mover to pick up kids from soccer, not the model t...

AmiDelf wrote:
Today Amiga wins on:

1. Fast boot
2. Better screen-handling (switching etc...)
3. GUI can be adjusted as you wish
4. Nice looking systems! Its more personal
5. Great multitasking while playing games. No lagg

[persia]

Yeah, the *NIX variants out there are really, really user adaptable.  What other OS gives your it's source code?  I think of something like Firefly BSD created by an ex-Amigan.  Really that's were many of the Aiiga community went after Commodore/Amiga folded.