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From: pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Okay, you Amiga Types, its time to bash your amiga. :)
Keywords: Amiga
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.183939.6293@javelin.es.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 18:39:39 GMT
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aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna) writes:

>Okay, I got a question here.  Now, we all heard how great and wonderful
>the Amiga is.  Now, I want to know, what are its bad points?

Two complaints:
  1. The design (the case) is CHEESE.  The 1000 had a gnifty keyboard garage,
but the case itself was made out of plastic the consistency of velveeta.  I've
got a 2000 now, and the front drive plate is broken off and there are tons of
scratches (with the paint flaking off) on the case.  The 3000 is a step in the
right direction, I'm glad its not bigger than the 2000 (read: HUGE).  But it
is nowhere near as nice as the Frog designs for Apple and the NeXT black
magnesium.  I really hate "computer beige".  I'm debating over whether or not
I should try and paint my 2000.

  2. Major software companies ignore the Amiga.  Look at the incredible Pixar
stuff coming out for the Mac.  This argument could go on forever, but I blame
the software companies themselves rather than the Amiga.

-- 
"No, no, no!  It is an empirical law of physics that the heat flux at any
point is proportional to the temperature gradient at that point."
                   - Claudia Schiffer, over breakfast.
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