Amiga HW price in a perspective

[Hell Labs]

Just thought id mention:

G4 Mac minis are £50-150, and supported by morphOS now. eMac Support is also in the works, and those are better machines than the mac mini by miles AND much cheaper still.

Why bother even arguing over the price of amiga hardware now? The best modern amigas are now the cheapest of the lot, and there's no point in dropping a fortune on a SAM or second hand A1 when you can get this. Hell, i'm actually worried for the OS4 devs because their market has just been wiped out overnight, they need to release fro the apple hardware AND FAST - or else they'll be having an imagination christmas.

[Hell Labs]

Grr, I'm sorry but the prices of the Amiga hardware are completely insane. I'm not sure even if I did have the money I would end up spending the money on that stuff anymore. I guess when I used to have a really cushy job that I made a lot of money in I would have. Not anymore. The poverty that 5 years have shown me tells me that I need more performance bang for my buck. Screw novelty, it's all about the here and now.

This. you might get a slightly-too-expensive deal on ebay or elsewhere IF YOU ARE LUCKY. Unlucky? bend over boy, you gonna pay £160 for 40mhz.

Seriously, boycott that nonsense. You wanna buy amigas? you got two sensible choices:

buy a 500 or 1200 for as cheap as you can get (£30 or so), use it for games and periot software.
buy a mac mini and run MorphOS.


THERE. ARE. NO. OTHER. SANE. OPTIONS.:madashell:

[Hell Labs]

For me it's always been iMac G3, eMac, and power mac G4. Lampshades are cool though.

It's funny how they thought second hand apple hardware was the best option. But then again, ones that survive the first part of the bathtub curve are incredibly reliable. My iMac G3 fell off a desk RUNNING, with a cd in the drive, and it didn't even crash.

I could see this old apple stuff outlasting every other computer from the period.