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Offline Cymric

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Re: Which to choose? 'Red pill or Blue pill'
« on: May 20, 2004, 09:43:45 AM »
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iamaboringperson wrote:
What would you run on the x86?

A helluvalot more than on the classic Amiga, AmigaOne and Pegasos platforms :-P?
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Re: Which to choose? 'Red pill or Blue pill'
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2004, 10:44:36 AM »
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gizz72 wrote:
So can I still do office work(VB stuffs, office Xp, DB2 server) under MOS?

Harhar. In any case, my opinion is to ditch all this slow and outdated PPC stuff which still doesn't allow you to choose freely from all available hardware even though it can be plugged in, and go for a PC. Much more bang for the buck. The only reason you should stick to Amigas or Pegasoses is when you have notions about 'going against the flow', 'thinking differently' and so forth. And then it becomes a matter of religion. The Pegasos has the advantage of having much more native applications, something which cannot be said for the AmigaOne. The latter has of course the name and from the scarce information available, a better redesign of the OS.

I am quite sure that even if at the moment the AmigaOne was sold with a full version of AmigaOS 4.0, you'd still hesitate. None of the mentioned computers will do exactly what your aging 1200 can do today. All of the computers will behave exceedingly fast and powerful. To stick with cheap  Matrix quips: 'Try not to select The Computer, for that is impossible. Instead try to realise the truth: there is no The Computer. Then you will see it is not The Computer that you select, it is only yourself.'
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