#Mac vs Amiga ?
Harry:
Would the fact that Virgina Tech REQUIRES it's Computer Science majors
to purchase an Amiga 3000UX (unix) mean anything to you or your son? The
Amiga 3000 is a very serious machine, and the 3000UX their Unix version of
the 3000 is available to students fairly cheaply (although more than the
standard 3000), and comes with a 200meg drive, 5Megs of memory, and I
believe a 24bit graphics card, and sells for about $5000.00 (although I'm
not sure of the exact price).
I'd imagine that the folks on the Mac fora will feel that the Mac is the
way to go, and that everyone here will feel (like I do) that the Amiga is
the way to go, so if you truly want an unbiased opinion you might want to
try some forum (and off hand I really don't know which one this is) that is
sort of a general computer forum, not a machine specific one, to get a
better view. I know that for me I have a problem when I've used a machine
for a while and then switch, because every computer does things a little
differently, while I love the Amiga, I've also used the Mac and even IBM's
and they ALL have features that I like, and ones that I don't, and there I
times I'm using one that I wish I had the feature(s) of the other. Another
thing to think about is that if you go the route of the the Amiga 3000 (or
even if you keep the 1000) you could always go with a software/hardware
unit made by Readysoft that is a Mac emulator that makes the Amiga think
it's a Mac+.
There's another route that can be taken, and that's of
expanding/upgrading the A1000. There's a company that makes a board for the
1000 that sort of upgrades it to the state of the art, allows 2 meg of chip
ram (1000 is usually .5 meg), and allows you to use the latest (and
greatest) version of Workbench that's going to be released real soon now.
-Mike Schiller
In sunny Fort Lauderdale