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Re: You thought the X1000 was overpriced?
« on: September 23, 2011, 04:18:46 PM »
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I just filter them out mentally... like you do when you have a record that's stuck and you can't change... just becomes background noise.

If an 'Amiga user' can't see that the rate of obsolesence on non-x86 platforms is much much lower than on x86-based consumer hardware, then I don't know quite what he's doing here because it's obviously not using Amigas.

On the plus side, fancy buying my K6-2/380 system? For the same price as an Amiga system of the same time, obviously, so will oh, £600 do?


By your logic a boxed Apple Lisa or to go further back a mint Altair are far, far better computers than the Amiga.

(Hint: it has nothing - zero - to do with what the real world will pay for Amiga-one systems from the year 2000.  People from "outside" aren't flocking in and driving up the prices of A1 gear, it's all churn from about 1500 users and nothing more.  Hype and Amiga Inc set the price and Amigoids are struggling to recoup their losses investment, and they sell to other Amigoids.  Take a box of SAM boards to your local computer sale/show, and I promise you ain't gonna sell out of 'em.)
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Re: You thought the X1000 was overpriced?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2011, 09:04:16 PM »
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You can't deny though that my AmigaOne from 2005 or whatever is a million times more useful with current software for its OS than a PC from the same era.


Hm, yeah, I can.  I used a 2005 era PC up until about a year and change ago and I did plenty an AmigaOne couldn't.  It also had:

Working USB2
Working DMA
Multiple OSes I could install on it (including in VMs)

etc. etc.

But whatever; Amigoids won't be shaken in their faith, so we move on...
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Re: You thought the X1000 was overpriced?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2011, 11:25:38 PM »
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C=USA, If you can't create something different than a PC in disguise, leave the brand alone!


Why?  They own it.  It belongs to them.  They can do whatever they wish with it.  Offer them $m and I'm sure you can become its spiritual defender.  

(Note this is not an endorsement of the pricing insanity or Barry's erratic behavior.)
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