Amiga HW price in a perspective

[B00tDisk]

nice try, but you fail to include the fact that the price of an average home computing system has fallen rock bottom in all those years in your analysis. :hammer:

amiga bundle may be expensive or not, there're just so many alternatives which do much more at a much lower price ... :afro:

Just so!

Three of these for the price of a cased Sam Flex; and each comes with an OS.  Soooo...one you can have XP on, one you can probably hack OSX onto, and a third for Linux/AROS/Amithlon.  All not much bigger than a paperback book.

Or buy a single and multi-boot to all of those; it comes with a 160gb hard drive...

Yeah I know which I'd pick if those were my choices.

[B00tDisk]

@ countzero

  A basic rule of literacy is that ALL analogies break down when you try to extrapolate them too far.  Market trends for coffee could never be used as an analogy for market trends for computers.  First of all, there are infinitely more blends of coffee to choose from then there are OS's to choose from.  And don't blame me for choosing a bad analogy, persia chose the analogy, I just tried to improve it. Despite your critism, I still think my analogy is better then persia's.

Fortunately, thanks to the choice of OS's out there, I can get both a good cup and good coffee (to continue your analogy).  OSX, Windows of just about any stripe (2000, XP, Vista, 7), AROS, Linuxes galore...

The Amiga Cup holds Amiga Coffee, nothing else (except maybe the occasional shot of Linux Flavoring).