From: mac1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Mubashir Cheema)
Subject: Re: A4000 is kinda UGLY !!!
Keywords: Ugly
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:58:24 GMT

skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:

>You obviously have not seen some of the PC cases that are available.  I use
>a PC at work that is much uglier than the A4000 and have seen several that
>are just as bad or worse.


  Good, you too admitted that its UGLY.

>> Hell its a big SQUARE BOX, no innovative design that we Amigans are used to.

>What Amigas are you talking about?  The A1000 had an innovative keyboard
>garage (which I never used except to show someone that it had one), but
>they chopped off part of the numeric keypad to make it fit.   The A500 is
>nice enough for a C128/Atari ST style computer, but hardly innovative.  The
>A2000 is, well, "functional" is about the nicest thing I can say about it.
>The A3000 looks pretty nice, but there is no 5.25" bay for things like 
>CDROMs and it is a pain in the ass to add memory, drives, etc.

 Hey I never criticised what was inside it or if it was functional or not
 I am just saying that maybe they should redesign its shape, maybe something
 like NeXT or something. 

 While I was proudly showing the same picture of A4000 to a friend and he
 goes " So what is it a 386 or 486 ? ". I was like " What ? ", "yeah yeah I
 know its Amiga 4000 and Amiga makes it but what is it 386 or 486 " he said.
 "Jerk its not PC compatible" I was a little upset. " Looks like one to me "
 he remarked. Well that forced me to post this article. 

 Man I am protesting against it. I am not buying it unless they stop buying
 the A4000 box from ( CCPCC ) Chinese Cheapest PC Cases Co.

>> How many people share my disappointment ?

>I'm sure that Mega Bitch and a few others will agree with you, but I'll
>state now that I like it well enough and will be buying one in the near
>future.  

>Is the way the computer looks that big a deal?  Sheesh, it is a tool that
>you use, not something to decorate your office with.  I used to keep the
>cover off of my A1000 all the time, but somehow I still managed to get
>things done.  If someone has trouble using a computer because it is not
>pretty, I really feel for them.


 If you can pack a Cray III in that UGLY A4000 box I sure would love to 
 get it, but given what A4000 offers and the ugly box comes as a bonus
 I think I'll use my current Amiga until things change.
 Again : I am not basing my decision entirely on the looks of a computer
 but that is a major factor. Think about it, do you care how a car looks
 before you buy it or you just care if it runs good.  


>BTW, I can think of several computers that are uglier than the A4000.

>Mac Performa 600        The ugliest Mac I've ever seen.
>IBM PS/2s               Plain boxes with goofy blue buttons
>Gateway 2000s           Huge curve on the front.  Is that a turbocharger?
>Tandys                  The case design sucks almost as bad as the computer.
>Sun 3/60                Talk about a huge square box...
>Atari TT                Looks like a multi-level birthday cake
>Decstations             Goofy looking PC/Pizza Box hybrid
>Mac Plus/Classic/etc.   The wimpiest excuse for a computer ever created

>Plus, how about all of the old 8bit Apples, Ataris, Commodores, CPM boxes,
>CoCos, 99/4As, Adams, etc.?

 IMHO a number of these computers look much better than A4000.       
 Decstations are kinda cool. ( My opinion ofcourse )

>Skip Sauls
>skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu


Mubashir.

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