a143@mindlink.UUCP (Ed Meyer) (12/08/90)
When I bought my first Amiga (a 1000) I bought it because it did things that were futuristic and more powerful on a qualitative and quantitative basis than any other machine around at the time. I did not care that it was not IBM compatible ... I didn't want to take my work home with me ... I wanted a fun machine that had the promise of power. You can't be doing the future by staying with what's current. I then upgraded to a 2000 (now with enough features it passes a 2500). And still I didn't care that it wasn't compatible with who-know-who's "clone." It was however becoming a more "serious" machine. I'm now looking at an A3000 and a NEXT. I like them both for different reasons which are the very reasons I'm 100% not interested in MACs or MS-DOS clones. I will be making an informed decision and will not be swayed at all by emotional rhetoric. I will be looking _very_seriously_ at what CBM-Amiga and NeXT will be doing to support what they have and to lead into the future. Face it guys/gals, hardware changes daily and every manufacturer is like a horse at a horserace. What changes more slowly and is _far_ more important is the direction of the company and their marketing and business skill. NeXT has a proven "winner" at the helm while CBM seems to have finally got a good team of "winners" near the top as well. Regardless ... love the one your with. Time will tell.