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From: utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re^2: Amigas in the big picture.
Summary: beg to differ
Keywords: reliability quality speed graphics sound compare
Message-ID: <7416@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 14:32:00 GMT
References: <648@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <1385@novavax.UUCP>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <1385@novavax.UUCP>, suther@novavax.UUCP (Scot M. Sutherland) writes:
> 
> I can only add one thing to your comments about Amiga as a
> personal computer.  There hasn't been, and may never be, a more
> elegantly designed computer, where software and hardware work
> together so well.  I find it almost magical.

Hmm.  Software, yes.  Hardware concepts, yes.  But the net
reliability of that hardware as it comes out of the box, no way.

Power supplies die too often.  Power supplies should never die.
Everyone who has bought more than one power supply for an A500
raise your DTR.
   Another problem that I can't understand is that some chips
want to crawl out of their sockets.  I can only assume that cheap
sockets are to blame.  Once _Amiga_World_ even recommended
banging the A500 on your knee a few times to reseat the graphics
chip for a few more days.  I heard a service tech. advise a friend
to try dropping his A500 about 6 inches onto the table to
reseat his chips before bringing his system in FOR THE 3RD TIME
for the same problem.
> 
> Sigh,  I guess I've been studying hardware too much!  Please
> forgive my sentimentality.  The Amiga design, in my personal
> opinion, is a work of art.
> 

   I own 3 Commodore computers: a PET 2001, a C64, and an Amiga 1000.
I talked a friend into buying an A500, which has failed repeatedly
as indicated above, and he feels he was burned by the A500's
engineering.  He's right, and though I truly enjoy my Amiga, I
don't see how I can ever recommend a Commodore computer again, even
though I'll probably buy another for myself someday.  Sad but true.

> Scot M. Sutherland--

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