Why keep suffering?

[matthey]

The people suffering are using Micro$oft products.

My Amiga 3000T has a 68060 and Voodoo 4 graphics card making it a pretty snappy system. It is fast enough for 90% of what people do with their computers. Software is cheap or free and some of it is very good. I just bought Pagestream 4.1 for less than $30 shipped off e-bay today for example. The Amiga does lack a good web browser or it would be used the most at home instead of my Winblows laptop which I have networked with my Amiga using SMB. The laptop is 3.2 GHz and slows down and has to be defragged about once a month and I don't even install much software on it. Plus it is always trying to do things I don't want it to. It does run some software that only runs on Windows like my software for editing the settings in my '93 Mazda RX-7 ECU (computer), another hobby of mine. The RX-7 engine has no pistons and is really small (80 ci = 1.3 liters) and people make fun of it and say it's outdated technology and unreliable which in a lot of ways it is but I have beaten a 454 ci Chevell SS and a couple of smaller displacement crotch rockets from a roll in it. The handling and breaks are amazing and the 7 is the funnest car I've ever driven. After driving the 7, I wasn't impressed by my uncles Porsche 996 (basically a newer 911) which I drove. It felt stiff and heavy even though it's about as fast, handles well, and has much bigger breaks (but longer stopping distance) compared to my 7. The Amiga is the same way. It's really good at some things when most just look for the most speed. I will buy the newer PPC Amigas with AmigaOS 4 if they ever come out and I'll use my classic Amiga for some things too. Whatever tool is best for the job and fun to use will be my tool of choice.

[matthey]

@-D-

The stock RX-7 could stop from 60 mph in 110 feet!...

http://www.fd3s.net/magazine_articles/motor_trend_article01.html

and the stock pads were not very agressive. Knock off 100 lbs of weight (as I have) and add more aggressive pads and you better have your seatbelt fastened. The 996 I drove was a 4 wheel drive Turbo with Tiptronic transmission and I found the boost to be laggy and the transmission slow. Rotary's on the other hand produce tons of hot exhaust that directly hits the turbos without going through a valve train. They are made for Turbo's and produce near instantaneous boost in stock form. My 7 with just bolt-ons ran 12.8 in the 1/4 while very rich and untuned at the time.   The 996 might even beat me 0-60 with the 4WD but RX-7's launch pretty well too. Yea, stock for stock the Porshe would win but it's not really in the same class (price range) as the RX-7 and the newer technology got better. Same with the newer Corvettes performing better but my RX-7 is funner to drive than both and can hang with them pretty well. I have modernized my 7 to neutralize some of their advantage and made the car even funner. Some have removed the rotary engine from the 7 and put in a V8 which has some advantages but it's just not the same without the heart and soul of the car. I would rather tweak the interesting and unique stuff and see what it's capable of even if it's not the biggest, fastest or the best. The same goes with the Amiga. See, I even brought it back on topic :-D.