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I had access to both Macs and Amigas, and the Mac was simply way more polished. It was a complete product that did useful things. It didn’t have a command line
by doctor_eval 3y ago
I had access to both Macs and Amigas, and the Mac was simply way more polished. It was a complete product that did useful things. It didn’t have a command line because it didn’t need^ one.
The Amiga was very flashy but, ultimately, it felt like a toy to me. It was more fun to hack on than the Mac, but most people don’t care about that.
^ I’m so happy it has one today.
- nevster 3y agoAgree about the polish. The UI of the Amiga always looked kinda gross. And the Amiga mouse buttons felt horrible. Almost as bad as the iMac hockey puck mouse!
- foobarian 3y agoWhat about the boxy hand holding the floppy when you turned it on! Heh.
- doctor_eval 3y agoI remember the sales pitch one guy gave me for Amiga, where he got all the images on the screen to cycle through all the colours of the rainbow. And then they had this weird printer that printed colour images on quarter sized thermal rolls? Am I remembering right? I suppose it was supposed to be an impressive demo, but even though I was in my early 20s I was like, wtf? Why would anyone want this?! Especially when I had a laser printer in my office!
- timbit42 3y agoThe Amiga was vastly superior to the Mac. Sure the Mac had every pixel in place. It looked like something overpriced, and it was for what little it could do. The Amiga didn't look as slick but I could digitize images and record sound, and edit them in full color and in stereo. On the Mac, you were limited to desktop publishing because you could do that with only black and white. The Amiga OS looked a lot better with v2.x.