> > I can't help but think that some of the Amiga advocates REALLY haven't
> > taken a look at the PC in the last year or so. Okay, maybe the PC's
> > solution is to throw brute processing force at anything. But, it
> > works...
>
> I could almost argue the opposite: Many PC-fanatics haven't seen the
> true state of the machine. An avid games player with the latest
> cutting edge hardware sitting in his bedroom will indeed be very
> pleased at his purchase. He'll be just as pleased in 6 months time
> when he buys a new one, too. :)
>
> What such people don't see is that the /average/ PC is not a 500MHz
> machine, but some sort of grotty P133 with 16Mb ram. This is whats in
> offices all over the country. Thats what people have to use all this
> new software on. Every so often a company will upgrade its machines.
> Very seldom to the latest spec, and almost always the old ones will
> filter down to other departments. Private users bought high-spec
> machines two years ago, and now wonder why they are slow.. Computing
> is a rich man's hobby. :-/
Actually, this very much depends on the country you're in - something
I should have noticed before. It seems to me that in the UK at
least, the gamesplayers have the coolest hardware and the rest
(offices, etc) seem to lag about 12-18 months behind the 'bleeding
edge'.
That's entirely different here. I work for a network support company
here in Melbourne, Australia ... over the last 6 months we've become a
rapidly growing company, too :) ... but we sell to corporate clients
and schools. These clients are placing huge orders for machines which
I'd be proud to play games on :)
I believe it was said somewhere a while back that Australia is the
second-fastest-growing region in the world as far as PC technology
goes. From the differences I can read between the UK and here, I'd say
thats about right (even if not 100%).
So, you may like to view my comments about the PC with that disclaimer
- there's a hell of a lot more high end PCs around down here then up
there, so in my mind at least the bar is higher than it may really be.
> If we're going to compare computer hardware, lets be fair. A pc will
> win on hardware spec alone, granted. I maintain an Amiga can often
> win on productivity. But don't compare a 4Mb 030 with a 128Mb 500Mhz
> K7... Please..
I agree ... there's a reason I come home to my Amiga after working all
day on a PC. (some may say that its because my PC crashes too much,
which frustrates me to no end :)). My boss often notices me with
something like 10 applications open and tells me 'Well no wonder it
crashes!' ... which frankly astonishes me. We're talking about a 300
Mhz machine with 128 Mb ram in it and I have to be careful how many
applications I run? My Amiga has 70 Mb ram, and a 50 Mhz 060. It does
more than that without complaining!
I don't understand PCs sometimes, I really don't. :)
(But, I do like Photoshop still :))
Jason
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