How Many here also use a mac

wildstar1063 wrote:
I have PPC Macs here, a G4, and a G3 iBook. I used to do tech support for an ISP, I just didn't want to have the same issues with my personal machine, that I was working with every day with other peoples Windows machines.

Like Wayne said, you just plug in a Mac and it goes. No
fuss no muss. I've used Linux releases both Yellowdog,
and the PPC version of Ubuntu, but none of them feel as
polished as a properly working Amiga. And not nearly as
polished and easy to use a Mac OS X.

Amen brother.  I deal, all day long with people having trouble with their PC's.  Most of them AOL users or Keller Williams Realtors who have a domain name, but don't know where the power button is on their computers.  I spend 8 to 10 hours a day dealing with fixing these problems.  Last thing I want is for my personal enjoyment after work to be hampered with having to make my own stuff work.

After work, it's de-stress time.  Sit, fire up WoW, go kill sh.... erm, stuff.  Not sit, load drivers, configure machine.  I'm 41 years old and I've had enough of "tinkering to make things work (the Amiga credo).  I just want things to work and the Mac, like it or not, does exactly what I think any potential new Amiga should.  It just works.

What most of you youngsters forget is that way back in the beginning, the Amiga was the forerunner of "just plug it in and it works".  Now it's so antiquated, it's literally "spend hours trying to adapt stuff to it" and that's just not me.

If someone (Amiga Inc or whomever) wants to come out with a platform that "just works" like the Mac does, then I'll take a look at it.  If "the new Amiga" is just going to be antiquated PPC hardware running a ported 15 year old copy of OS 3.1, forget it.  It just doesn't work for me.

THIS is what I was trying to get across to Amiga Inc and the "AAC" years ago.  Their response?  Typical "ban the heretic" I'm afraid.

Wayne

[vic20owner]

The new Amiga is coming out when the new Osborne goes on the market.

[TheWizard]

Well,

I've got a dual-processer PowerMac G5 and a new MacBook Pro. I feel however, that these computers are only marginally better than PCs. Nothing like the way the Amigas were.

TheWizard wrote:
I've got a dual-processer PowerMac G5 and a new MacBook Pro. I feel however, that these computers are only marginally better than PCs. Nothing like the way the Amigas were.

Apples to Oranges though (still no pun intended).

When the Amiga came out in 1985, it was light years ahead of the PC or anything else on the market for that matter.

In the world of desktop computers, there's only a finite amount of space available in the realm of what's possible.   These days, there is literally no way that any desktop computer could come out (short of a complete revolution in hardware ideology) which could even hope to find that much room over what's already available.

It would literally take a quantum leap in computing of the Roswell magnitude for any new desktop to be nearly as revolutionary as the Amiga was in 1985.

Wayne

[TheWizard]

I wasn't trying to illustrate current margins versus historical margins of innovation. I just think that although my current machines are faster and better in many respects, somehow they just don't stack up to the good old Amiga.

[persia]

Amiga was state of the art when it first came out, unfortunately they haven't progressed in the last 17 years so they are now far from state of the art.  Apple has taken some good risks, the whole OS X thing, they've managed to put a Unix derivative on 3 percent of the desktops out there, no one has ever come close to that.

Want to tweak the internals?  Pop open a terminal and a full Bash command line is there.  Want to ignore internals?  The GUI hides them from you.

The new iMovie is brilliant for short video projects, far more power and easy than the old toaster and completely run in RAM.  Aperture pulls my 12 megapixel raw images from my camera and allows me to tweak them with ease.  Garageband is fun.  The new pages is a far better word processor than anything out there.  Numbers, well who could say a spreadsheet is sexy?  Numbers almost does it.  Crickey the Mac is brilliant, it is cutting edge and it's what the Amiga has to compete with.

Amigas are great game machines, I love the old games, they are far more fun than the new games, but they've got a long way to go to be anything but a niche retro machine.  

Amiga needs programmers, look at AROS, it's really the future, more so than the outsourcing company that bears the Amiga name.  Running AROS on cheap intel equipment is the best way to save the Amiga.  But there aren't enough programmers, the project is taking way to long.   Once it's finished where are the programmers to do the APPs?  AROS without APPs is nothing.  You need the Aperture, iWeb, Final Cut type APPs, that's programming that few people will be willing to do with a promise of reward in the future.

[Pyromania]

We have Mac's here @ DiscreetFX, iMac Intel, iBook, PowerMac G5, etc. We have a little of everything thou, except Visa.