Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!bagate!dsinc!unix.cis.pitt.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!rlcollins From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga vs. Mac Message-ID: <4232.27de369d@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Date: 13 Mar 91 19:26:37 GMT References: <1991Mar10.192823.30103@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar10.204119.22113@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <4210.27db9aac@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1131@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Lines: 57 In article <1131@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: > In article <4210.27db9aac@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes: >>To the market the A500 and classic is geared to, speed is not an issue, > > Bull. Speed is *always* an issue. Period. That is why reseach money is > constantly being spent on hardware and algorithm development. Motorola could > probably sell the 68040 for an order of magnatude (or more!) less if anyone > wanted a 1Mhz 68040. But people buying a Classic or A500 are not going to be doing to much CPU extensive tasks. The user will probably use his computer more for wordprocessing or telecommunicating than anything else. Most people I know haven't begun to use all the power in a 4.77MHz originaly PC, let alone all the power in a 7MHz 68000. > If someone tells you the speed of his computer is not an issue, he is either > such a neophyte user that he has yet to tax the CPU of his computer, or he > is lying. The wonderful thing about computers is that they give you the > ability to do amazing things. The other side of the coin is thatthey also > reveal to you the things you could do if you had just a few more megs of ram, > or a slightly faster CPU. Of course I would love to have 16MHz 68000 and 4 megs in my ST, but I can't afford it right now that I'm still in colege. (Well, I would really love to have a 32MHz 68030 with 8 megs of RAM in my ST, but I REALLY can't afford that right now!!! :*) >>only ease of use and marketbility. The Classic is ideal for education due >>to the fact that it is compact and very easy to network. >> >>Logically, to the new computer user, could you really recommend an Amiga >>500 over a Mac Classic? (especially a computer neophyte?) > > Certainly. Workbench on the Amiga is every bit as easy(*) to use as > the Maciintosh. What do you tell that new user when he comes to you with his Excel worksheet and asks you how he can use it in his Amiga? The only people I would recommend something other than a Mac or IBM clone are people that use computers a lot, and can figure out how to get things done. Unfortunately, these people already know what they want, so they don't even ask others. Many of my fellow students are realizing that they need a computer for college, but the business majors already realize that they need an IBM clone, the non-tech majors (English, Music) see the Mac in plentiful quantities and realize thats the computer thats easy enough for them. It's a sad fact. Hell I'd rather see the world full of Amigas and Ataris too, but I really don't see that happening. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ryan 'Gozar' Collins Question for IBM Users: rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET |||| Power Without How DO you move/copy a rc1dsanu@miamiu.BITNET / || \ The Price!! Subdirectory? R.COLLINS1 on GEnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------