What 1800 buys you nowadays.:roflmao:
Well, I remember looking at an A2000 when it was first released and the price was about that much for (US$), then taking into account for inflation, I'd say, yes, I'll pay that much. I've been using WindBlows machines since I tried to install the A3000D motherboard into a Mirage tower...got to get the CD-ROM drive addressing strapped right and the floppy drive stopped working, other than that it kind-of still works, just can't install the drivers for the new expansion bus without the CD-ROM drive. I'm stuck using Xcrementing Profusely right now and it blows when it doesn't suck. I miss mi Amiga. And I'd be spending around US$1000.00 to get the old machine up and running and buying a CyberStormPPC card anyway just to use 4.1, so WY not go for broke and buy a new computer, that ok, maybe won't be as fast as a WinTel machine, but then with AmigaOS you don't need all that horsepower. I remember that the old A3000D didn't do too badly with standard CPU an 18MB of RAM. Even if I bought a new WinTel machine (HP mini tower) I'd still be stuck paying close to the same amount of money for the system I'd want, and I'd still be stuck with the two ton jockey that is WindBlows. And, yes, I've tried Linux and it's not much better than WindBlows. And I bought my first computer in 1981 so I'm not exactly a novice, plus being a retired US Navy Electronics Technician First Class, I know a little about electronics. No, this isn't my dream machine. For that I'd go with a 128 bit multiple-core, multiple parallel processors and 1TB of RAM. If you are going to dream, why not dream big???but I like the dual core XMOS coprocessor and the Xorro bus. I've looked at the specs and it allows for some interesting possibilities.
