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Innovation, excitement and daring to be different. The Amiga community has always had people who are creative and prepared to contribute not only for big bucks. I use Windows, MacOS and AmigaOS, but Amiga is the only one thatr really engages my interest.
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The Amiga is super-efficient, lean, friendly and does what YOU want when you want.
Today: my PC has trouble starting up. I do an interactive boot, nothing wrong (naturally) but I have the default 640x480 lo-color display. Display properties won't let me adjust the display back then this and Control Panel "disappear". Restart. Because I have used MSConfig to do interactive boot loads of things I had turned off are back in my Systray. Msconfig to turn them off. Still 640x480 display - get video driver again although I don't need it in case this makes Display properties happy. It does. Restart. Things I don't want still in Systray. Msconfig again, remove things from Systray again. Restart. Repeat several times over... oh and my net connection refuses to connect ... perhaps another restart and it will be ok? Thing is, in PC land this is "par for the course", it's just one of those days. It will probably be alright for 4 or 5 days 'til next time, trouble is there is ALWAYS a next time.
I switch on my Amiga, it's ready in 30 seconds. It does what I want. It doesn't stutter when I play MP3s and do *anything* else. It'll happily format floppy disks simultaneously whilst getting my e-mail, browsing and doing God knows what else at the same time. If I need to restart I press 3 keys and it's ready in 30 seconds again. I have never had to re-install the OS, apart from when upgrading. If I want to know what it's doing I run SnoopDos and just watch exactly what it's doing second by second, and if I need a command line I run as many AmigaShells as I want to get to the linux-like OS shell. That's what I like, you always feel you are in control of AmigaOS and it's a pleasure to use. When I've finished I just switch it off, knowing it will be there doing the same things just the way I like when I switch it back on - chances are won't decide to stop starting or change screen mode or not connect.
Sorry if this sounds like a rant, hey - it's been "one of those days" 
Regards,
Jim
*AMIGA - So The World May Know*
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(Am new here but.) Same as above... Had an a500 shortly after they first came out...  Still got my a1200 at home, got it towered up, then the tower case broke.  I managed to rig a 3.5 hdd and floppy drive, 16 mb ram + 68040 + co-pro expantion port card into the original keyboard case, linked a squirrel scsi/serial pcmcia card to both a cd rom drive and a 100mb zip drive to it and decided to use towers external (a4000) keyboard. so fitted it's adapter instead of internal keyboard (stickyback plastic over case hole)  and it still works,  linked it to my study pc via serial connector, and ncomm to my pc's serial connector running the pc's terminal prog, can use max data transfer between the 2 although I still have to swap the display mode to see either as i use an avermedia tv box for my monitor..  To sum up, it's a community/ease of use thing... amiga os 1.3 through to 3.1 (yes with 3.1 rom upgrade) was still a smaller os that can do more than a pc's windoze (tm)  whilst using less memory to do it.  There is less bloatware on the amiga, with a customizable start up too
CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Network+ (N+) Certified Professional.
CompTIA IT Professional (IT Pro) Member.
Windows is now a 64 bit tweak of a 32 bit extension to a 16 bit user interface for an 8 bit operating system based on a 4 bit architecture from a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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Why? The Amiga set many firsts in the computing world. It was the first computer to display 4096 colours on screen at once using it`s HAM(Hold And Modify) graphics feature of the PAD(Paula, Agnes and Denise) chipset. Then along came AGA(Advanced Graphics Architecture)in the A1200 which could display 256 colours in games. I still have the AGA version of DID`s Tornado (How I wish they would update that for the PC). I have noticed a lot of games, even today, on the PC are direct copies of some of the Amiga titles eg Shogun Total War PC is actually a remake of Lords Of The Rising Sun from the Amiga. And I believe NASA still use Amigas today.
You didn`t have a registry to worry about, and when you uninstalled a program you UNINSTALLED a program, it didn`t leave loads of bits and pieces lying around to cause trouble. There were no drivers to worry about, and when you bought software and it said Amiga on the box 99.9% of the time it worked on the Amiga. It was also the machine that introduced me to the world of 3D rendering via a free copy of Imagine on the Amiga Format cover disk.
Time flies like an arrow.....Fruit flies like a banana!! 
'E' is for Ethernet. Used for catching Etherbunnies, Etherfish or Etherbutterflies.
 
No wonder there`s so much poop on my PC these days.
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Amiga's (mainly PowerPC based) are extremely light weight. My Amiga 1200 boots up in under 10 secounds but as for my PC, that thing boots up in just under 10 minutes  I havent got any fancy PoworPC exelorater, just a Blizzard1260 with a 68060 @ 50mhz. Im saving up for an AmigaONE XE G4. The AmigaONE series is the latest version of amiga computers, and are by far way more better than a PC. (well.. thats my point of veiw) cheers. Sam.
AMIGA 1200 tower, Blizzard 1260, 66mb RAM, CyberVision 64/3D graphics card,Blizzard 1230 SCSI controller, 100mb ZIP Drive, 52x CD-RW, 30GB HD, AmigaOS3.9
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