Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au!cpca From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr9.004657.26302@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Date: 9 Apr 91 00:46:57 GMT References: <12502@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Apr7.034535.26282@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland Lines: 35 In article <1991Apr7.034535.26282@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> BTW, $3250 is the price to beat. > >How about $500? As an applications platform, the Amiga 500 is pretty close, >since it's not tossing CPU speed away on VM. Really, a stock NeXT is about as >responsive as a Mac Classic, which the 500 has beat all hollow. Oh, sure, CPU >intensive stuff will be faster on the NeXT. What CPU-intensive stuff do you >get with the machine? Surely you're not comparing the NeXT to an Amiga 500 ????? Get serious people. In Australia, for about $3500, all you can get is a 2000 with multisync, 50 megs HD, and 3 megs RAM. You can run slllowwwww productivity without flicker, but you still have interlaced screens a lot; you only get a poor 7 MHz 68000 which is years dated; a chip set that is pretty crud by 1991 standards and an OS without VM or any sort of memory protection (wouldn't matter really since you only get a 68000). If you want to get rid of flicker you have to pay $700 for a flicker fixer as the 2320 isn't available here and mightn't be for years. For the same price you could either get a good quality 386sx (super vga + windows + hard drive) or a cheaper clone with 25 MHz 386dx (with the lot too). Real cpu speed! (get xenix or some of the other multitasking os's and you can have a real os too). The point of all this is.... the 2000 needs a serious upgrade it is far too slow/poor graphics for anyone to consider it who doesn't have a special need for an Amiga (like I did). >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. -- Colin Adams Computer Science Department James Cook University Internet : cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au North Queensland 'And on the eight day, God created Manchester'