From: u9155406@cs.uow.edu.au (Gerardo Bentancor)
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:22:31 GMT

barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:

>   Over two and-a-half years ago, when the Amiga 3000 came out, many people
>remember how much I flamed the system because of the few improvements it 
>offered in the overall characteristics that make the Amiga an Amiga.  But to
>its credit, the A3000 did not head in reverse on any key technologies, either.

Point Number 1: You Flamed the A3000...

>   The A4000 is a different story.  With the A4000, the only substantial
>improvement is color.  And it becomes clearer every day at just what the costs
>have been to improve the color capabilities.  In the key area of display 

Point Number 2: You Flamed the A4000... (which I'm sure you have never laid
your hands on yet!)

>flicker-free.  Because of the Display Enhancer, the A3000 is usable with lots
>of very high-quality monitors.  I know one person who found a bargain on a
>19" workstation monitor which syncs down to 31Khz, offers a brilliantly sharp
>picture with lots of colors (as many colors as any computer can put out),
>and just plain works beautifully with the A3000.  With the Display Enhancer,

So now you have decided that A3000 wasn't too bad after all...

>   The A4000 is a totally different story.  At first, I was a little confused

A Little Confused! My friend you are very confused about a lot of things..

[ A lot of other crap deleted ]

>   The point of all of this is that it has become clear to me lately just how
>much the A4000 retrogrades in the important area of non-interlaced display 
>resolution.  The system is vastly inferior to the A3000 in this respect.  So
>I seriously recommend that anyone considering the purchase of an A4000 not
>purchase one, at least until a Display Enhancer becomes available for it. 

Yes Mr World Acclaimed Authority on All Aspects Amiga (WAAAAA)

>Some people might want to simply abandon the A4000 altogether, purchase an
>A3000 instead, and upgrade it with a third-party video card as soon as DIG
>becomes available for the Amiga.  (The A4000 retrogrades in more than just the
>area of display resolution, though.  Due to its use of IDE instead of SCSI,
>the A4000 retrogrades in the area of HD access and HD speed as well)

Incidently I find it hard to believe that you will notice much of a difference
between the IDE and the SCSI drives Mr WAAAAA, as most drives fitted to 
these machines are in the 120MB capacity, and since SCSI only really 
excells (sp?) with higher capacity drives it doesn't really matter...
(for eg. I have on my 2000 a GVP HardCard Series II with a 100meg quantum,
my brother on the other hand has a factory installed IDE 30meg hd on the A600,
and I can tell you now, that his little beast will load Workbench and all 
that crap at just the same speed, if not a little faster than mine!, we
both use 2.0)

>   BTW, so far the odd-numbered Amigas (A1000 and A3000) have turned out to
>be the marginally good systems, and the even-numbered Amigas (A2000 and A4000)
>have turned out to be disappointing pieces of shit.  I hope this trend does 
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Marc would know a lot about shit tho...(since he spins so much of it)

>not continue.  But even if it does, at least it bodes well for the A5000.

Oh, listen to this, this is good. Tell me my little furry friend what was so
good about the A1000? In so much as it was a pioneering machine, all future
revisions of the Amiga have been far better.

You are a complete bumbling idiot. I have yet to see anyone on the net
that makes such ridiculous comments ALL of the time, and I am impressed by
your feverish desire to post such tripe. Your arguements are contradictory
at times, and your self-important hand-waving makes everyone cringe. You 
claim to be a supporter of the Amiga computer, and yet you indulge in 
Amiga-bashing so often you resemble an Atari FALCON groupie! You post 
hundreds of lines at a time, shit you must love to see you name in print,
and no matter how many times you get shot down you just bounce up again.
And to top it all off, you are such an expert on the Amiga system(s), how
much software have you ever written for the amiga? I dare you publish any
of your software in this newsgroup!

ATTN COMMODORE: Please employ Marc Barrett as the CEO. After all he is
brimming with expertise and brilliance, and he has designed many, many
computer systems in his lifetime - how can you pass it up!

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           Marc Barrett: JUST SAY GET F*CKED!!!

Martha says: "Little pr*ck, I'll give him a piece of me!"
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