In a message of 13-Jun-02 Bob Quintal wrote:
>> Oh, I don't doubt the actual PPC card will be worth the
>> money, but will it be worth the money to put such an expensive item
>> into my A4000 which it getting close to ten years old...
>>
> What is the life cycle of an A4000? My 17 year old A1000 still works as
> well as it did 17 years ago. My A2000 is still the core of my
> video-editing business. The hardware is rock-solid and the software
> does what I need it to do.
True, my experience with my Amigas has also been very good. However, I
know several people who have had a lot of problems with their Amiga
hardware breaking down.
> Intel machines are obsolescent after 3 years.
> If you expect that the A4000 lasts another 3 years, and the cost of the
> PPC upgrade is equivalent to replacing the machine with an Intel, and
> the software you need is available on AmigaOS, I would say that the
> more enjoyable Amiga would be the best buy.
Perhaps. But the question is: "is the software available?" - today it is
more or less available, except for a decent browser, but the browser is
yet so good that I can live with its shortcomings. It is very difficult for
me to say if the browser still will be good enough in six months, one
year or three years. Today we see more and more JavaScript, more and more
CSS, more and more Java applets, more and more flash ... Someday it will
simply be too much for the Amiga browsers to be sufficient.
Because I don't expect the browsers to be up-to-date no matter how much
work Olli and David puts into it. The task is simply too huge for them,
it being only a sparetime project.
Uffe Holst
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