Are the Elbox tower and mediator products worth it?

[lempkee]

if there is 2 products worth it... then it must be Blizzard 060 cards (with or without a ppc) and the mediator model(s) .

why? , well put it like this.. if you want to use your amiga and forget about the pc's (if u have any) well this is your first jump for freedom, anyone stating otherwise aint an real amiga user imho!.

When you add a gfx card (a voodoo in the case of mediators) your system will be faster and have proper resulutions and beyond that price aint exactly mind boggling.

also the easyness of adding a ethernet card + a soundcard is a matter of seconds if you know your way trough the actual tools/apps it uses (ahi and miamiDX is an example) .

there are some downsides to it ofcourse , you will either need 2 monitors or a monitor that does 15khz and up modes (ie like M1438 /M1538 and 1738 monitors from amiga) or a scandoubler.

in other words... you loose aga/ecs if you dont, i use a old 1084 for my needs and have both monitors connected , i had a scandoubler but thats gone now...i also have a tv card to view aga in a window (games etc) on my wb , but sadly its far from perfect (scrolling is bad).

and ihave a usb2.0 card , i have my digital cam installed , a hp5550 printer , a hp2000 scanner etc..all via usb...

without my mediator i wouldnt have all this ...in such a simple way....other than that the mediator is easy to install...u can't (almost) go wrong and its well documented with pictures etc so you should fear any of that, though it wont fit in all towers...so which tower do u have? .

the software installation of mediator is abit harder , this is where most fail at first, the documentation is rather confusing and it should be redone in my opinion.

but if you get one, you will always get help from the people who has one, i would atleast try my best to help out + you have the mediator mailing list etc.

good luck.

[lempkee]

tanzyr and all others who didnt understand what i meant by an real amiga'n.

what i was saying or trying to anyway was about the earlier thread where SOMEONE said an amiga with mediator aint anything less than PC and UAE , sorry for being so short about it but i wanted it to be as short aspossible ....hrrmpft

ok , try 2...  you should buy an GFX CARD for your amiga no matter what and mediator is the only real thingy for Amiga1200 , on a4000 and such u have other alternatives but still i think most would choose mediators anyway, and i am aware of all the Earlier issues but to be honest i havent had any problems , EXCEPT for the installation wich was quirky.

to all whom complain over support, weird because i get answers within minutes when i email em, dont know why but i do...maybe i am special :DDD

Grexx is abandoned so thats out of the loop unless u really only need the drivers it has atm, and about the openpci solve for it, doubt it ever will get out of the waiting loop

promethus is a4000 only and that i see as an alternative to mediator, but it has issues.

beyond that u can always go for the slower options , like.... zorro3 gfx cards :O..

but forget about zorro stuff in a1200, too slow and it wont last long until u upgrade to either a grexx or a mediator because you want better speeds.


cheers...