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The following year in 1985 the Amiga 1000 with all that extra graphics hardware apparently cost 1295 USD and Macintosh MSRP was 2495 or 1995 depending who you b
by fulafel 4y ago
The following year in 1985 the Amiga 1000 with all that extra graphics hardware apparently cost 1295 USD and Macintosh MSRP was 2495 or 1995 depending who you believe.
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- KerrAvon 4y agoAmiga folks always overlook Apple’s emphasis on user experience. The Amiga workbench UI at the time looked like an Apple IIe high-res mode if someone had forgotten black and white monitors existed. Everything was ugly blue / orange combination and the graphics seemed chosen to emphasize pixel bulkiness. Put that and the 1985 Finder head to head and the user walks out the door with the Mac. Something like DeluxePaint vs MacPaint would be a much different story, easy Amiga win. However, pretty much every user considering a computer would need word processing, where again the Mac had a rock solid look and feel advantage.
- whartung 4y agoYea, I did not like the Amiga. It just felt cheap. The low resolution "high res color graphics" were just Not Good compared to the crisp B&W Macintosh graphics. GEM for the Atari and PC suffered the same problem, it just looked terrible. Even Window 1 and 2 looked better than either of these. The singular interesting thing from the Amiga was that you could drag down the current screen and reveal a screen beneath. I never spent any time with the Amiga, to be fair, but I was off put enough by initial perception to not really even want to try.