CompuServe Messages

"And if you refuse to acknowledge that, its Mac fanaticism, because the Mac is "goin' down"." Heck, Ian, I get a lot of flack for telling the Mac fanatics that their God is in trouble. (And I own something like a dozen Mac's here. But with Windows 95, Windows NT and the Pentium, ain't no way you're going to find me buying more overpriced Macintoshes.) The Mac II was introduced in 1987. the Mac IIx in 1988 and the Mac IIfx in 1990 as well as the IIsi. Yes, it's true that the only feasible upgrade for a '286 class machine is a motherboard replacement – but that's pretty cheap compared with Mac upgrades. Your contentions about "USING MODERN software, MODERN hardware" leave me puzzled. Much of the "modern" software simply doesn't exist for the Amiga. There is no counterpart I know of on the Amiga for Excel or Lotus 1-2-3 – and I'm talking the full feature set here, not just a spreadsheet subset. There is, as far as I know, no counterpart on the Amiga for Word or WordPerfect, particularly with their powerful macro or scripting languages. Likewise, as far as I know, there are no fully featured relational databases for the Amiga on a par with Access or Paradox. (The Mac is also database deficient.) In the graphics area, while there are some truly excellent programs available for the Amiga, there isn't one equal to Photoshop. For video, I think the Amiga still has a very slight edge, but it's eroding very, very quickly. In terms of processors, there is no accelerator or other solution that will give the Amiga PowerPC or Pentium capabilities in terms of speed. Similarly, the Amiga is somewhat crippled in being able to handle large images in RAM. So when you say "modern" hardware, the Amiga is getting kind of long in the tooth – and a lot of "modern" software simply isn't available for the Amiga to begin with. "I used to use a SE/30 for my work – can a SE/30 be upgraded to PPC without replacing the whole guts of the computer? If so, then I stand corrected. If not, then my statement is COMPLETELY TRUE AS STATED." It can be upgraded to a 68040, but not a PowerPC. Of course, the SE/30 as it stands can be used to run all of today's Macintosh applications. So I don't see how the fact that it can't be upgraded to a PowerPC somehow makes it "unusable" in any way, shape or form. The Amiga, by the way, can't at this moment be upgraded to a PowerPC either. Does that mean – by your very own definition – that it's unusable? Jerry