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From: a143@mindlink.UUCP (Ed Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Gimme a break (Was: Mine-is-better-than-yours)
Message-ID: <4079@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 90 15:31:08 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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When I bought my first Amiga (a 1000) I bought it because it did things that
were futuristic and more powerful on a qualitative and quantitative basis than
any other machine around at the time.  I did not care that it was not IBM
compatible ... I didn't want to take my work home with me ... I wanted a fun
machine that had the promise of power.  You can't be doing the future by
staying with what's current.

I then upgraded to a 2000 (now with enough features it passes a 2500).  And
still I didn't care that it wasn't compatible with who-know-who's "clone."  It
was however becoming a more "serious" machine.

I'm now looking at an A3000 and a NEXT.  I like them both for different reasons
which are the very reasons I'm 100% not interested in MACs or MS-DOS clones.  I
will be making an informed decision and will not be swayed at all by emotional
rhetoric.

I will be looking _very_seriously_ at what CBM-Amiga and NeXT will be doing to
support what they have and to lead into the future.

Face it guys/gals, hardware changes daily and every manufacturer is like a
horse at a horserace.  What changes more slowly and is _far_ more important is
the direction of the company and their marketing and business skill.  NeXT has
a proven "winner" at the helm while CBM seems to have finally got a good team
of "winners" near the top as well.

Regardless ... love the one your with.   Time will tell.