What would an Amiga be today?

[kreciu]

I can tell that for me Amiga could be only slightly faster, so my icons would show in screen is real time , and I could play mp3 and DVD's using some hardware "acceleration".

Other part of Amiga "future" is in mighty hands of programmers...

70% people could use a "notepad" for writing a documents, 15% could use FinalWriter from 1995 for putting the tables and pictures and basic formatting of fonts, rest could use PageStream 3.0.

Development of computers/electronics is a crap. Now, we can talk.



For me they could produce a A1200/4000 board even today, the same.

My old "CRAPPY" Amiga is taking amazing... 100W (maybe?), today mighty PC based on the most strict ecological crap is like 300W (some even 1000W) WOW. This is development!

[kreciu]

Amiga would look like like the people who would buy it...

Conclusion?

Amiga would look like... PC, Playstation etc.

 :-D

[kreciu]

Instead of AGA, this would be a Geforce8800 but the name would be AmigaForce8800 (be with you!)

[kreciu]

amigadave wrote:

pan1k wrote:

70% people could use a "notepad" for writing a documents, 15% could use FinalWriter from 1995 for putting the tables and pictures and basic formatting of fonts, rest could use PageStream 3.0.

I still use FinalWriter '97 and Pagestream. It does the job.. and loads VERY fast on an '060.

My Dad just wrote to me and my sister for advice about getting a new computer.  He is 78 now and did not get a computer until I gave him an A3000 some time around 1998 or so.  He used it for about a year before it became necessary for him to get a Windows computer to share files with his work and friends and better Internet access.  He then bought an eMachine (can't remember the specs) that he still uses today and I loaded FinalWriter for Windows on it for him as he was familiar with FinalWriter 97 on the A3000.

Well now that he wants a new computer he is concerned that his Family Tree software and his word processor (FinalWriter) won't work on the new computer.  I told him to go to WalMart or Costco and buy a new computer as that would probably be the best bang for his buck and satisfy his computing needs, but he has a local shop that wants to build him a computer.  I am afraid that they are going to gouge him with an out of date machine for a middle of the road price.  He did not like my suggestion of going with a Dell as he had heard stories of bad reliability.

So, the described problem is software not a hardware.

Someone is "making" us  (makes us jerks - is it write spelling?) to change hardware (than software) since the text is written Office 2003 is not compatible with the text written in Office 2007 (or FinalWriter), and this programs are not compatible (of course!) with any "Amiga" writing programs.

BTW. Think about any crappy format you want... music, video or pictures etc.

Please do not focus on text. I know that I don't have to change computer to run Office 2007... :crazy:

Nobody cares about user, thay just make money on people. What the Office 2007 cost like $200 (and 100000 people work for that crap) but Hollywood and Page Stream cost $100 each and only couple of guys work on that?

Just compare this software, functionality.  :roll:

Sure there are "some" compatibility patches...

[kreciu]

 

ZeBeeDee wrote:

kreciu wrote:
Someone is "making" us

Nobody is 'making' you ... YOU see it, YOU want it, YOU buy it ...

It's called supply and demand ... the more people want, the more the companies will strive to deliver the goods.

Nope, I'm out of this  :crazy: circle. It's called free choice. There are some people who do not want to follow just their own egoism, and demand of faster, easier in any cost, just give me more please...

BUT in this whole process you mentioned...

First You SEE IT?

So, first the company advertise you new peace of {bleep} and YOU BUY IT . (The "you" think... is not You! ).

So, someone is creating new needs for people who think that thay can't leave today without GPS in their Ipod, cell phone. Kids (also bisnesssss man) have to have a "8Mpix" digital camera in the cell phone... people are like a hord of scheeps... ... baa, baa, baa I need new Ipod , faster graphic card etc.

Today I can get free 22" Dell monitor, nobody is using it any more...10 year ago some would steel it... and go to prizon for this peace of plastic and glass...

They are in perfect condition! Why we dispose working hardware? To make more space on computer table? Now small experiment, how many space is behind your monitor? This what I'm working now (library) around 40 cm. Great "saving" of space... baa, baa, baa, baa (it is good English "sound").

We develop new compression formats... why we need 1T HDD? Paula after 15 years sounds like X-FI for $100. It's a "bull {bleep}"  :lol:

BTW. Why we need soooo long tables for computers? Becouse we like to strait our legs under the tables!! :Hahaha: And putting the monitor to far back makes it not visable, so "we need to" buy a 24" LCD but than we can see the corners so "we need" to go back...  :crazy:

[kreciu]

This means that today people eat, buy, do what the mighty TV, newspapers, advertisement will tell them to do etc... and they are free? Children "attached" permanently to TV's with game consoles, game pads ... "killing, shooting, and destroying "monsters" in "real 3D". Parents exited in buying new 100" LCD TV and watching football game. Live "on cell phone", people who can't live without it.

The question is what kind of new value give us new computers? Can we do something better, productive today that 15 years ago, or even 1000?

Value which is improving the life truly and fully, value which make life different than in past.

What development of computers change in human nature, how it helped in personal development?

Simple questions, even my poor English is able to express this issues...

BTW. Do we really need internet connection in our fridge?  :crazy:

[kreciu]

@DigitalQ

Information is not a new value. Did you hear saying: "The history is written by this who won the battles", or that "History is written by historians"?

Soon nobody will have to go out of the house, to feed it's own virtual pet, water virtual plant, nutrients will be provided by "pipes" directly to you system... ups. I started describing matrix? What the "brilliant" idea, lets make a movie about that?