Amiga vs PC

[ElPolloDiabl]

Screw Amiga, I'm wondering why I could surf the web in Windows 95 with only 8MB of RAM. When I upgraded to 16MB I could run Excel and have a dozen pages (i.e. the whole internet) open in netscape.
Windows is not a home OS. They design it for businesses and then let you 'borrow' it.

[ElPolloDiabl]

So if computing power doubles every 18 months, and the A4000 was circa 1992, do you feel that your 2010 PC gives you the power of 2^12 (ie 4096) A4000's working at the same time?

It is actually transistor count that is suppose to double.

[ElPolloDiabl]

It's became quite apparent from this thread, that a lot of the folk posting in it are obviously too young to understand or so lost in their own little world of trying to convince themselves that, they are right and everybody else is wrong or are even able to comprehend just what the true meaning and whole experience using a home computer should really mean.

It's nothing to do with quoting the best specs you can google, or trying to make yourself look smart and clever by saying X chip can do this and Y board can do that or you'd need a quadzillion transistors running at X amount of Mhz to make this do that.

If that's your idea of fun and enjoyment from using a home computer, then my friend sadly you haven't even lived.

Yeah I think everyone is so obsessed with speed and new features they forget about backward compatibility. If your old software simply won't run on your latest system how do you know you're really going faster? Backwards compatibility is worth paying for.

[ElPolloDiabl]

If one system does something better/easier than the other then that systems wins. Some people treat Amiga like a religion, they are sticking it to 'the man' to only use an Amiga.
I'm interested in Amiga because Amiga is interesting. A simple customisable user interface from the dawn of GUIs. I guess that means the software is the deciding factor whether I like it or not.