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My father was a plumber in the 80s and bought our family an Amiga 1000 for $1,200. Today thats about $3800 in inflation adjusted money. I just bought my son a t
by pcarolan 23d ago
My father was a plumber in the 80s and bought our family an Amiga 1000 for $1,200. Today thats about $3800 in inflation adjusted money. I just bought my son a top of the line pc for $2,000. I get that it used to be cheaper, but value is still relatively good for these machines.
- downrightmike 23d agoExcept we've gotten so much better at making computers since the Amiga, its a travesty that things have gotten so bad for consumers. You know the ones that bail out the bubbles
- Danox 21d agoThey have a vision which consists of computer users being tied back into mainframe computing with them as the gatekeeper. That is the wet dream of Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google along with Meta. The thought of local AI is also disgraceful, Nvidia didn’t buy for Hugging Face for 12-13 billion for nothing.
- Danox 21d agoIn 2011 I bought a fully loaded 27 inch iMac paid 3700 (used it for 9-1/2 years) at today’s prices that would be about $5400, bought a M2 Mac studio M2 ultra that cost about $7200 2-1/2 years ago the price for the new Mac studio M5 ultra just announced by Apple is $11,400. Former owner of Amiga, 1000, 2000, 3000, and 4000 I would have gotten a Next computer at the time if I could’ve afforded it, unfortunately, I was tied to a PC at work using AutoCAD, Revit and Navis Managed a few years later. The Games back in the day on the Amiga computers were ahead of the PC for about 9-10 years, coincidentally Sony bought a British gaming company called Psychosis for their games and gaming technology. They were pretty big back in the day on the Amiga.