Isowyn wrote:
Perfect amiga for me?
Dual G4 @ 1,5 or more; 1 GB of DDR ram; On board gfx card (something from ATI of course) with its own memory; and that finishes it.
Seems a little overkill. I always wonder why people would need that much memory and CPU power. I only stretch the CPU and the memory when playing games and doing heavy-duty scientific calculations. For the rest of the time, it's just twiddling its thumbs, waiting for that organic processor in my head to come up with some keyboard or mouse input.
Id like for Amigas to have only the option to upgrade Proccesor and RAM. Why? Well If you have a closed system you never can wory about drivers, compatibility issues, making it to complex.... Making it simple should be a goal. I hate PC's just because of that. To much modular structure makes it obsolete fast. I have an old i-mac with G3@500Mhz and Im stilll satisfied with that while I payed over four times the buying price on my PC just to upgrade it and keep it with touch in time. What I just told may seem confusing and I dont blame you. I am not certian myself If I wrote stuff exactly as I ment it.
Please, no more closed systems where the only thing you can upgrade is the memory or the CPU. At least not for desktop PCs.
Then I notice something odd. You are happy with your aging iMac, but are not with your PC. You want the latter to be in touch with time, so you complain about the amount of money you have had to spend. Those are two different things. If you had kept the iMac in touch with time, I'm sure you'd have had to spend more money on that too.
Besides, the whole 'keeping in touch with time' argument is losing steam very quickly these days. On hardware forums, people are basing each other's heads in over equipment whose soul function is to boost complex game performance to even more dizzying heights---so high in fact that you don't notice it anymore. People are not testing performance of new hardware on regular applications: posting a 1% increase in responsitivity is simply neither sexy nor marketable. However, post the same percent in terms of frame rates (say, 100 to 101 Hz, well above the normal refresh rate of any monitor), and all of a sudden game junkies are wetting themselves to try out the 'new experience'. Regular applications don't change very quickly over time, so the entire 'keeping current' argument in my humble opinion is a load of psychological marketing fluff.
I bought my system two years ago, and only now are there slowly games appearing on the horizon which it cannot fully cope with. Their number is so ridiculously small that I will happily use what I have for at least another year, and quite possibly two.
