When did you realize that the wintel machines had caught up to the amiga?

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Have they?  OK, yes.  However, I find Wintel machines to be very powerful, but very bloated and inefficient too -- the GM Hummers of the computer world.

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persia wrote:
Not a good comparison actually, an Amiga 2000 will consume far more power than you everyday quadcore intel machine.  Add to that the downright piggishness of the 1084 or any other crt and your Hummer analogy falls apart.

Persia, you've missed the analogy -- or more likely, you have chosen to.  I was not using the "energy" term as in Watts(E/s) or horsepower literally.  I (obviously?) meant the enormous "horsepower" of the Wintel machines that seems to go to waste -- Re: such incredible "under the hood" memory, CPU, hard drive size, etc. of the modern Wintels.