From: x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Oh my God! Help my friend not buy an IBM!
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:00:37 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <griffita.721293584@sfu.ca>, griffita@fraser.sfu.ca (David Stuart Griffiths) writes:
> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
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>>	She made a good decision.  Engineers use either PCs or
>>workstations by IBM, SUN, DEC or HP -- Not Amigas.
> 
> True enough
> 
>>	I should probably keep quiet and less this nonsense pass since
>>I am in the middle of the Amiga Advocacy group, but I have enough faith
>>that most Amiga users are knowledgeable enough about computers to know
>>that an Amiga 500 is nothing compared to a 33mhz 486 based PC.
>>	I used to have an Amiga and when I went to a PC I vowed to
>>make sure it did mroe than my Amiga did and it does.  My PC blows
>>away any Amiga I have ever seen in terms of graphics, sound, animation
>>and multitasking.  Hence, OS/2, 16 megs of memory, 24 bit coprocessed
>>graphics, an Sound Blaster Pro.
>>	By the way, never had a problem with it since I bought it (2 years
>>ago).
> 
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>>> I like Heidi, so I want her to be happy, and I feel it would be best
>>> if she cancelled her order and instead purchased an Amiga.
>>> 
>>	Moving to an Amiga would be a major major mistake.  Most college
>>people and nearly all engineers (myself included) have PCs.  If they
>>don't have PCs, they have to use the labs.  PCs are far more supported
>>than Amigas.
> 
> I agree, in this SPECIFIC case, the Amiga WOULD be a mistake.  Why buy
> a machine you can't use in your line of work.  I don't agree with
> Amigans who try and push their machines on everyone else for any use.
> Being an adept Amiga user, and generally a knowledgeable computer
> user, I try and suggest machines that would benefit their users the
> most.  For graphics/sound/creativity I can suggest the Amiga without
> any problems.  For business I would suggest the Mac and the IBM.  I
> would suggest the Mac first however as novices will like it a lot more
> because of its ease of use (Windows and OS/2 do truly suck compared
> with the Mac's ICON driven environment).
> 
> It's nice to see Amiga uses who try and help other potential users by
> suggesting what machine would best fit their needs.  It's a shame the
> IBM community doesn't share the same consideration and tell people to
> use Amigas for graphics and sound rather than trying to convince them
> that an 80x86 based machine is the end-all-be all of computers.
> 
> 

	I have recommended the Amiga a lot mroe times than IBMs.  To
the home user who wants the whole family to use the machine, I think
the Amiga is the way to go.  For $800 you can have a computer that has
excellent grahics, sound, and multitasks.  
	But as I said before, suggesting an Amiga to an EE major is
nuts.  The Amiga is a very powerful computer for the price, but it is
not the most powerful comuter out there.  There are PCs and even <macs that
can offer more (it just takes a lot more money in many cases).

				-Brad


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