Will there every be another computer like the amiga?

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What i miss most is the feel of a responsive GUI, and the fact that I could dig into the OS file structure and have a fairly good idea of what did what.

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Xp memory use went up with each service pack. The system took up around 128mbs in 2001 but you needed 256 to actually run anything and not die of impatience. Service pack 2 upped the anti to around 200mb for the system and so you needed a 512mb machine to do anything. I am writing this on a late 2003 xp pro laptop and it takes 305mbs for the system. No problem with 1.25gb of memory. After just checking, 2 web browsers are using 325mbs between them. 512mb just won't do it in the modern world. Xp is still usable but just barely so at 512mb.

And my A4000 is just so happy with 80mb. So much the world has changed.

And to think I have the encyclopedia brittanica text and pictures on one 640 MB CD ROM.

How can a 2 web browsers and a gui OS need the equivalent amount as an encyclopedia?