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alexh · 04 July 2009, 19:50

Waste of time if you ask me.

You're gonna need to spend upwards of £300 on an A500 to get it to the point where you can browse the internet in anything like the way you do on the PC.

And it will still be a crap experience. Slow, few colours, most sites wont look correct or load at all because of poor Amiga web-browsers.

If you started with an A1200 or A4000 it would be cheaper, but not by much and still be a poor experience.

You'd spend all the money, time installing stuff, try it once for half an hour, think "Thats crap" and never do it again.

Forget it and do something more fun instead.

04 July 2009, 19:50	#5
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,337	Waste of time if you ask me. You're gonna need to spend upwards of £300 on an A500 to get it to the point where you can browse the internet in anything like the way you do on the PC. And it will still be a crap experience. Slow, few colours, most sites wont look correct or load at all because of poor Amiga web-browsers. If you started with an A1200 or A4000 it would be cheaper, but not by much and still be a poor experience. You'd spend all the money, time installing stuff, try it once for half an hour, think "Thats crap" and never do it again. Forget it and do something more fun instead.