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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Macs are great...but
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Date: 19 Jan 91 15:26:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jan19.040432.21738@cs.dal.ca> graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham) writes:

   I've had a Mac Plus for almost 5 yrs now and Iove it. I have 4 megs
   of RAM and 65 megs of HD space.
   Anyway - some of my friends have Amigas - one has an Amiga 
   3000. They keep extolling the virtues of their machines and the
   inadiquacies of mine - all the way up  to the IIfx.
   I am getting VERY sick of this and want to put them in their place.
   What are the loopholes in the so called Amiga advantages - like:
   true multitasking
   faster operation??
   more bang for the buck
   video stuff - like the video toaster and dedicated graphics chips
   cheap software
   good, cheap emulation software
   etc etc etc etc...


Actually the Amiga is a pretty good computer.  Its main problem is(or
has been -- I don't follow Commodore) the lack of good business
software.  Last I heard, Word Perfect was still only shipping version
4.2 on the Amiga.  If the machine had a Lotus 123, PageMaker, etc, it
would be a lot better machine.  That's probably why NeXT has a better
chance of penetrating the business market than Commodore; they have
some serious software for the machine with more on the way.  Also,
with the Amiga and the NeXT, you do need more support.  At least on
the NeXT you do(I haven't played with an Amiga for a couple of years).
For the hobbiest, though, the Amiga is probably ideal.

-Mike