| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2001 at 10:12:32 |
| Subject: | Re: Upgrading Amiga |
hi,
> > > I'm upgrading my Amiga to a PC as my A1200 is now beyond economical repair.
> >
> >
> > now theres the Oxymoron of the week ;-)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > alan
>
> No!, not quite; I would suggest it's myself!(I'm assuming derision)
err, not quite. its a phrase which cannot fit/contradictory (and nothing
to do with the word moron ;-) ).... 'upgrading an Amiga to a PC' hmmm
;-)
> I've just spent (Total, inc, carriage and a 4x USB addon) £1140 ,ie.,
> GBP, on a PC!
>
> It's the "Best", (notice I've used quotes.) one can buy, or at least,
> close to it.
>
> I've chosen an Athlon 1.4GHz 266 DDR, with appropiate 'bits and bobs'
>
> Have you *ANY* idea what I've spent on my Amiga?
nothing? ;-)
what i cant understand is people (and no, i'm not talking about you, its
just a general observation of the past years) complain about the cost of x
or x on Amiga....and we're talking sums of maybe a few hundred
pounds...and then will spool on about how they're buying some 1 grand PC
system. If only that money were spent in the Amiga marketplace.
> Have you *ANY* idea as to how much I would need to spend on it to get
> it to come close to a PII 450? Counting Amiga1, of course.
my BlizzardPPC 240 with the BVision is pretty close to a PII-450 system
overall (in fact, response wise its faster, but thats AmigaOS for you).
I *know* that if I installed a PCI BUSBoard and a my voodoo3 PCI it'd be
just that little bit better but I'm waiting, perhaps for AmigaONE.
the only downside of my system (well, apart from the low-level stuff like
low memory bandwidth, limited gfx-card bandwidth, no L2 cache) is the
disk-access speeds.
> C'mon, Alan, I'll bet you have a PC as well: confess, confess; you
> will be familiar with the 'saying':-))
nope. I'm one of *those* Amiga people who dont have a PC. I use PC's all
bloody day long, a cant wait to get away from the damn things ;-)
Alan
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