What I miss about Amiga shops.......

[runequester]

The local mac store here are pretty nice all in all. They never give a fuss about fixing my wife's laptop or taking a look at it.

I usually grab random gadgets from the Best Buy across the street, who are polite but generally clueless, or I buy from specialized places online.

[runequester]

I feel like that too when I fire up my old ZX Spectrum and compare how efficient it is to the bloat of the Amiga. Who needs an OS on 3+ disks that you have to wait to load?!

:laughing:

I have a pencil and paper that never runs out of memory, and no colour bleed either  

[runequester]

A government sponsored report a number of years ago in the UK about these "extended warranties" showed that this money making scam (and that's all it is) that almost 78% of these purchased warranties are never used or needed during the warranties lifetime by the buyer and the small remainder that do require it when something does break down, will more often than not find that the company claims the broken part is not covered by the warranty...

If you know a friend who is a shop manager that tries to sell such warranties ask them to tell you just how much the "warranty provider" (ie: insurance company) actually pays the company/shop a share of the revenue from selling these things and just how much the shop actually pays the staff a bonus/fee for each one they sell, reckon you might be surprised when you find out the truth...

Never buy one... it's not worth the money and in most cases the paper it's written on...

If there's one thing getting an amiga again has convinced me of, it is that if a computer still runs a month after you bought it, it'll probably still run in 10 years

Hard drives and monitors of course tend to crap out sooner.

[runequester]

yeah, you can't just toss out a story like that and then leave it hanging

[runequester]

Apple on the other hand, for their often being praised as the savior for the individual thinking computer user sure like to trap you in their little box and force you to do it their way.
 
Just my opinion........

Its not like Microsoft are a shining beacon of openness. Same shit, different colours