The Next-Gen Amiga hardware

[Kurt]

True But unless you want to design a Chipset or pay the big bucks for the developement of a chipset
you are stuck with the current specs.  If you think the MAI chipset is obsolete
check out the specs on the Marvell chipset to be used in the PEG2.
It does not even have AGP! Not many companies are willing to make a PPC chipset for a MOBO
so we are currently stuck with what we have.
The  lack of USB 2.0 not much of a biggie as you can get a PCI card for that along with firewire the big difference is the Ram speed and the AGP speed.
but for many cases that won't make much of a difference becuase your average Amiga owners are cheap!  They would never spend $400 plus dollars on a graphics card or money to buy decent speed DIMMS they would just buy the slowest bargain DDR running at CAS 5 rather than the good stuff at CAS 222
Just look at how many AmigaOne buyers are running thier Amigaones at 100FSB
because they are too cheap to buy the SDRAM from thier dealers because the Amiga Dealer charges $10 dollars more for DIMMS that work properly.

Kurt

[Kurt]

@rodney

Boy were you a sucker for marketting.
Only until recently has my PC finally outpaced my Amiga. Until last year when I puchased a XP2100+ Machine. Until that time my Amiga scanned and printed many times faster than my 1.4gig Thunderbird. I also surfed using Ibrowse becuase IE was slower on most sites. I still use YAM for my mailer Mainly for Virus protection.

PS turboprint and Scanquix still do a better job scanning and printing than my PC. In fact my boss made a comment to me how the print quality of my documents had gone down. I had switched from final writer97 to wordperfect Office 2002.

Turboprint is true 24bit
WINDOWS is 12bit dithered to 24bit makes a big diff printing pictures.


Nothing on the PC seems to compare to scanquix for speed and quality.

I am writng this on my A1200T using Ibrowse.

Your comment about 95 outpacing the Amiga Nope not a chance unless you where using an unexpanded A500 and 1.2 maybe??

I agree with others on this thread  software matters that is why I Still use my A1200 and all the great software that is on it.
many times I pass documents and pictures back and forth on the network switching with my KVM using a package on the Amiga and the PC getting the best of both worlds to easily accomplish my tasks. My PC may be top of the line but it still can't do everything as well as my A1200 can.

New does not mean better .

goodnight

Kurt