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- From: evunder@Bgnett.no (EVEN UNDERLID)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 22:48:44 GMT
- Organization: Bergen Nett og Media AS
- Message-ID: <1943.6640T1371T1984@Bgnett.no>
- References: <4hfaub$o8i@nyx.cs.du.edu>
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- >>Win95, the only Windows version that can even *dare* to call itself a
- >>competetive OS. To run it and its applications *without disk swapping* as
- >>comfortably as with my 6 MB A1200, you will need at least 12 MByte of RAM,
- >>perhaps even 16 MB. You need an E-IDE Controller and a harddisk of 630 MByte
- >>*MINIMUM*, facing the size of Win95 and the 32bit Software coming with it.
- >>You need a VGA/SVGA gfx card, a soundcard of at least 8bit, 4 channel
- >>stereo. You will need a CD-ROM, because Win95 applications are hideously
- >>big. You need a 14" monitor. You need software: Win95, Word for Win95,
- >>Excell for Win95, Access for Win95, CorelDraw for Win95. An organiser (I
- >>cannot think of one for the PC right now, but won't be hard) *IN 32bit OR IT
- >>WON'T PREEMPIVELY MULTITASK*, a DataStore-equivalent
- >>(dto) and a PhotoGenics-Equivalent (dto). A pinball game and a jump-and-run
- >>game. Then you will have to install everything - and get it to work smoothly
- >>together. Oops, I forgot ScalaMM300. You need a MultiMedia presentation pro-
- >>gramm, too. Now, you have a system that is comparable in performance to the
- >>A1200. Go to your local store, face them this list and then tell me how much
- >>they would charge for it *including assembly and installation*.
- >Besides the software, which you would have to pay extra for also, you can
- >get a dx/2-66 with all of the hardware you named for less than $1300 and
- >you would have a much faster system. Just look in Computer Shopper
- >sometimes.
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- What is this crap? Haven't you seen the Amigamagic packs yet?
- With EVERY Amiga today you get organizer, photogenics, personal paint (i'm not
- sure about this one, though!), wordworth, Scala MM300 (not with nonHD machines,
- though!), datastore and some kind of a spreadsheet (cannot remember what it's
- called though!).
-
- -- Rustybrain -- Sigop AMIGAvsPC at Global Issue (tlf.56599956) CALL NOW!
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