Amiga hardware superiority

[Gulliver]

I was comparing the Amiga with its competitors back in those times in the hardware aspect.

Each machine is listed with its default factory configuration (third party expansions are not taken into account).




Do you think the Amiga was superior in all aspects?

[Gulliver]

Well, I woul have chosen for the cpu & bus speed of the Quadra, and the audio from the Falcon.

[Gulliver]

Yes probably I made a mistake or two on the chart, but despite those Mac lovers, I still think it was not the best machine.

[Gulliver]

@Heiroglyph
My brother´s A4000T when bought new came with the 1.76MB floppy and I believe it was a 2x cdrom reader.
Paula is more likely a poor man´s DSP I didnt know where to put it.

@Tone007
I believe, there isnt a total winner or looser. It is that some aspects of some of the contenders were really good and others not so much.

@Karlos
I agree that back in the days of the A1000, it was the computer to have, every IT/geek guy was having wet dreams with it.
I wish I could have one of each, less the Next, which I dont find especially interesting.

[Gulliver]

Do you think things improve if we go backwards?
Respecting the same innacuracies as the first chart, here is one from 1990

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@Gulliver

You missed an important comparison row out on the table: at what rate can the joystick port be polled?

:whack:

Yes, you are absolutely right. How on earth could I have missed that important feature!
LOL

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@amiga92570
I was trying to look for a 1990 IBM PC model, and that was what I found. Other PC companies did better indeed. You are right that it does not represent the highest PC model at that time.

[Gulliver]

@Pentad
I can assure you the DraCo never used Paula, it used a modified Tocatta soundcard. Cia chips, are not custom chips, but generic 68000 auxiliary chips sold at electronic shops. And kickstart roms are nothing more than eeproms/proms that you can probably buy at your local electronics shop.
So you see the DraCo had no custom Amiga chipset at all. They relied on a heavily modified kickstart, that was patched upon boot.