Reviews of AmigaOS 4 are hard to come by, due to the rare nature of the operating system as well as the hardware it runs on. So, whenever a review does pop up, no matter how short, it's worth a look. This review, posted in the forums of Amigaworld.net, takes a quick (very quick) look at the classic version of AmigaOS 4, released early December 2007.
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I cut my teeth on Commodore computers and I remember them fondly. I owned a C64, C128D, Amiga 500+, and Amiga 2000. I personally believe that had Commodore better managed its own affairs and stayed in business, the Commodore Amiga would be the computer of choice amongst today's scientists and graphics / multimedia professionals. The Amiga was head and shoulders above the competition when it was in its prime and this trend would only have continued. What a great machine!!
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Impressing collection. I've still got some Amigae (what's the correct plural?) around, 2 x A500, 2 x A600 and an A1200. Furthermore, 2 x C64 two C128 (a normal one and a D type) around, and I'd like to revive them (plug them in) in order to do something impressing, just like as it was in their era.
As it has been mentioned, the Amiga computers were impressing: 12 V input, video and audio (stereo) output, silent, standard connectors (parallel, serial) - great. And introducing "movie like" graphics while the PCs were still beeping stupidly and showing 80x25 characters on a monochrome screen... :-)
Well, maybe. But NB that SGI introduced modern and powerful machines in this field of use, too. But maybe the standard of what users do like to have at home would have gotten towards Amiga computers.
Well said. In some regards, they still have advantages ("are superior") to PCs that call theirselves "modern".
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Amiga 500 was probably the last computer to give me the WOW! factor. Were all so used to having PC's around now it'll never happen again. Shame!
I have often wondered if the "been there done that" feeling is responsible for the discontent to towards todays hardware, software.
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Well, I wrote this comment on AOS4. Yes, it was not really a review due to the lack of time (for writing a real review) and due to the lack of abilities to write in (good) english.
But just for completeness, i want to point out here, that all interested users should read all comments to my "review" as i was wrong in some observations.
So, e.g. the x-surf network card device doesn't crash anymore if you install the latest library updates or use the right settings, respectively.
EDIT: Thus, the speed and stability is amazing compared to AOS3.9 
The thing, one can complain about is, that those libraries (and settings) should have been installed by the latest OS-Update (in february). If I never had written this little review in the amigaworld.net forum, I had never found out why my system crashes here and there
greetings,
nexus
Edited 2008-04-22 20:06 UTC
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screenshots?
ask your favorite image search engine . 
example screenshots: http://www.vesalia.de/e_amigaos4.htm
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I sometimes check for vintage computers on eBay... and it's amazing the prices that some Amigas can go up to. AOS4-capable machines reach the prices of a new computer, just because they can run this "new" OS, and I can't understand why. Or better, I can understand why, but I can't understand why people refuse to admit the truth ;-)
