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Re: Order your A1 motherboard
« on: September 06, 2002, 11:11:31 AM »
> For me, I cannot justify all that money for a hobby to run an antiquated OS (4.x) on a dead-end machine (PPC).

Well, if it gets the job done in a pleasant matter, it will beat any Wintel machine with any number of MHz as far as I'm concerned. Real life performance and user satisfaction is what matters. MHz are just a measure of how many cycles the system's CPU does every second.

And as for the Amiga being a "only a toy": It boots up, allows me to a bunch of stuff I need/want to do the way I want it done, and then I can shut it off again. That's a real computer fulfilling a real purpose in a satisfactory way.

But of course, if it doesn't work that way for you, it might just be an expensive toy as far as you're concerned. For me it's a useful item, and I am quite ready to pay for it.

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Re: Order your A1 motherboard
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2002, 01:54:26 AM »
> So I should pay 200% for 50% of the machine simply because Amiga dealers can't figure out how to gouge the price of an x86 machine?

No, feel free not to buy it.

> I've been quiet for a while because, well, first of all, I have been on travel, and secondly -- in all honesty -- I wanted to see who would be the next one
> to blindly sit around and defend Amiga Inc's stupidity without actually being able to back it up.

Gee, that really makes you sound intellectually superior.

> In regards to benchmarks,

Screw benchmarks. I think an AmigaOne with a G3 will do what I want it to in a satisfactory manner. And it will do so without MS Windows. That's what
I want from my computer. If you want a regular PC, you can just get a regular PC. I won't stop you. I won't even question your choice.

Now, I'd like to know: All those who constantly bicker about Amiga Inc., AmigaOne and AOS4, what are you trying to achieve? If you don't want the
product, don't buy it. I get the impression that some of you are doing your very best to discourage the rest of us from getting what we want. Why
is that? Does it give you some sort of kick? The AmigaOne and AOS4 are coming. Most of the work has been done, and discontinuing it would mean a
great loss to all parties involved. Why not just let us poor feeble minds who wants it in peace?

Kay