Amiga OS 3.9 or 4.1 for PPC (and is it worth it?)

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As someone that grabbed one of the first SAM's off the line, for day to day use, I consider it one short hair above "useless".

For tinkering around with solely Amiga stuff, I have a lot of fun with it, though.

It is a pain to be constantly reaching for my ipad, solely because the SAM's web browser has puked once again on something as simple as FB, Google Docs, etc.

[Duce]

Situation is not different on any Amigish platform. Our best web browser is same.

Amiga is hobby machine, it is OK for general web browsing, like reading dayli news, googlin info about "something", but I wouldn't call Facebook or Google docs simple.

Yes, all the variants and platforms have a similar issue.

If you have to start delineating the practical use of what is being sold as a "modern PC/Amiga" in terms up "Will look up a good quiche recipe, but forget about checking Facebook or using Google Docs", we're really in a sad state.

I've got a 7 year old iphone that has zero problems with anything on the modern web, but no matter how much money I threw into the Modern/"Next Gen" Amiga platform, it'd still be there, from a $300 used SAM440 to a X5000.

Come on, Dude.  Don't lay it at the feet of the people making the websites.  They aren't doing anything wrong, no Black Magic from them.    No other "Modern" systems have an issue with them.  Blame the crap browser, not the site. My old 3GS can use FB just fine, an old Windows 98 machine I've got in a closet even can.

1 billion people log onto FB every single day - I'd call that a pretty basic site.

Earlier tonight, when I was too lazy to bother hopping onto my Win PC, I tried getting on it (FB) on my SAM, which came to a screeching halt.

But yes, by all means, let's keep making more and more powerful hardware to effectively...  Do nothing in the modern, general/daily computing area.

[Duce]

I gave up being an Amiga only puritan back in 2000. I think I did well to last that long. Since then its been a pure hobby. Once you have it as a hobby only, the question of "is it worth it?" becomes moot. It's not worth it for any practical use case and hasn't been for years. But it is a lot of fun.

Well said.