leel@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Lee Lawrence) (06/14/90)
This message and all follow-ups are *NOT* intended to discuss relative merits of Macintosh versus Amiga platforms... no flamewars please. I need to get a Mac compatible system for various reasons and I have heard that by buying an Amiga with AMAX (the mac emulator) that I can do it cheaper and get an additional machine as a side-effect. (btw, I can qualify for Mac or Amiga educational discount prices) 1) Has anybody out there bought an amiga to do primarily mac stuff? 2) What won't work under AMAX emulation? (e.g. color/sound, also any programs?) 3) What about the new AMAX which is planned on being released soon? rumors? 4) What are the relative cost and speed differences between real Mac and AMAX? 5) Why shouldn't I do it this way? 6) any *related* discussion or technical info is encouraged I come to your hallowed halls as a visitor from the land of IBM compatibles and am not terribly knowledgable about the technical sides of Amiga or Mac. I've sold my 286 and am ready for a new home. Once again, please don't tell me why an Amiga or Macintosh is an overall better system to have. I just want to know the the pro's and con's of emulating a mac on an amiga versus owning a mac. Thanks for your input, Lee Lawrence
mpmst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (metlay) (06/14/90)
...I can tell you the following: The AMAX will not run MIDI programs
for the Mac environment, and rumors that the new one will correct this
gap are just that as of now-- RUMORS. The primary disadvantage of an
emulator of any sort comes with a two user environment, where one person
needs one machine and the other needs something different. Thsi was my
situation; I was going to get an AMAX until I realized that my wife
didn't need anything more complicated than MacWrite, so I bought her a
tired old Mac 512k for her office, and told her to keep her hands off
my Amiga. |->
An AMAX, bundled with chips'n'drive, runs about $400. A Mac Plus, on an
educational discount, runs $799 (or has the price dropped again?). The
AMAX is a moneysaver, all right, UNLESS your Mac needs can be satisfied
by spending $300 on an old tub.
--
metlay | JOKES FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICIANS #12:
| Q: What's the best MIDI peripheral for the Amiga?
mpmst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu | A: A Macintosh.
metlay@vms.cis.pitt.edu | (it'd be funnier if it weren't true...*sigh*)