Why do you still use your old Amiga?

[that_punk_guy]

Whenever I want to do some animation, or sequence some music, it's much easier to do these things with PPaint and OctaMED Soundstudio than anything on the PC (although for recording organic audio projects I use Cakewalk.) (Edit: or my trusty TEAC 4-track ;-))

But my main machine is an x86 box. As people have pointed out, they can't be beaten on price. For about £500 I got an Athlon system that runs apps nice and quick, (and in terms of 3D performance it pisses on the current video consoles from a great height.) And AROS just flies  :-D

[that_punk_guy]

This thread has really got me thinking. As soon as I have the cash, forget that drumkit I wanted, I'm gonna get a damn good miggy on this desk!  :-)

[that_punk_guy]

smerf wrote:

Has anyone ever noticed that as PC clones advertise faster speeds every year, that they actually seem to run slower.... Now I would sure like to see an Amiga computer running at 2.2 Gig hertz with 512 meg of memory.

I read today that IBM actually considered using an MC68000 in the PC but decided against it... because it was "too powerful!"  :-D

(Not too sure about the authenticity of that claim, but it's damn funny  :-).)

[that_punk_guy]

There are commercially available dynamic ramdisks for Windows. It sucks that you have to pay for third party software for such a feature though, you'd have thought there was room for it somewhere among the bloat.