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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga vs. Mac -- convince me...
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.034953.9275@grebyn.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 03:49:53 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.161412.14449@math.lsa.umich.edu>
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In article <1991Mar11.161412.14449@math.lsa.umich.edu> jeremy@math.uic.edu (Jeremy Teitelbaum) writes:
>Apple IIsi/5M RAM/80M hard drive + HP laserjet IIP with appletalk/postscript

An Apple IIsi?? :-)  (Of course, you meant the Mac si)

OK, and now for My Humble Opinions:

>1.  Will Commodore survive in the US?

Probably survive.  Never flourish.  In the US "success" is defined by the
amount of business purchaser dollars you can capture (the business of
America really *is* business). The clones have locked that up tight, it
doesn't matter *how* good your alternative platform is.  Look at NeXT, a
far more sophisticated platform than the A3000, and with the NeXTstation
a faster and cheaper one too.  They even have the PC heavy-hitting
developers writing for it, Lotus, Ashton-Tate, WordPerfect.  The best
estimates show about 10K units shipped.  This is abysmal, and I predict
the NeXT will never really make a showing on businessmen's desks.
Neither will the Amiga.  No matter what.

>2.  If the system breaks, can I get it fixed?

Yes. This is getting better and better in fact.  You just have to find a
good dealer. There are a few around.

>3.  Is my selection of "canned" software too limited?

The Amiga has about one or two of most things.  Yes choices are limited,
and packages don't measure up to PC packages, where fierce competition
has forced vendors to refine their products or perish.  Whether choices
are "too limited" will end up being you own subjective opinion,
depending on whether you find software you're pleased with.

>4.  Is the Amiga a hacker's machine, which needs a lot of fiddling
>to get it to do stuff?

If you want to fiddle there are plenty of things to fiddle with.  If not
then it's very useable right from the box.

>5.  What is the overall hardware quality like?  Do the keyboards,
>mice, etc.  hold up over time?

I think the hardware is of good quality, excellent compared to the clone
market PC stuff.  I personally haven't had a keyboard or mouse fail, on
the Amigas (an A1000, an A2000, and now an A2500) I've used. I love the
keyboard.
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