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- From: integral@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Noah I Rosenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Access 2 - Amiga Set-top Internet browser
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 19:27:39 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Message-ID: <4i4j7b$oi1@uwm.edu>
- References: <4hp1sh$abu@lomond.icbl.hw.ac.uk> <4hsrof$nor@twizzler.callamer.com> <jragosta-1203961405500001@ppp-2018.dca.net>
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- Joe Ragosta (jragosta@dca.net) wrote:
- : In article <4hsrof$nor@twizzler.callamer.com>, csmith@slonet.org (C.
- : Deforrest Smith) wrote:
- :
- : > Chris J Schnurr <cjs@icbl.hw.ac.uk> wrote:
- : > >This appeared in Edinburgh's Herald & Post this week (7th March'96):-
- : > >-----------------(paraphrased)-------------------
- : > >A local Edinburgh company Access Innovations is producing a new
- : > >all inclusive internet browser for approximately 1/5th the cost
- : > >of current PC or Mac products.
- : > >
- : > >Based on Amiga technology, the product will be an all inclusive
- : > >machine which allows access to the internet via phone lines and
- : > >uses a standard television set as a monitor.
- : > >
- : > >Specs are : CD-ROM, 2 Mb RAM, floppy drives, internal modem,
- : > >keyboard and mouse.
- : > >
- : > >The full package is expected to cost around 200.00 uk pounds and
- : > >should be ready for early summer.
- :
- : ROTFL. This has less to offer than Pippin (6 MB of RAM and RISC chip)
- : which is $500. Where does 1/5 the cost come from?
- :
- : Heck, you could buy a PowerMac 6100 for $1000 with 8/500/CD/cache for
- : $1000. How is this 1/5 the cost?
- :
- : --
-
- 2000 pounds comes out to about $259. That's less than the price of a
- playstation. $259 is a MUCH more attractive price point that a pippin.
- Pippen won't sell if these come out. The average consumer doesn't know the
- difference between power mac and risc and what not, they want cheap and they
- want WWW. And this gives it to them, for less than any other system around.
- So you can go buy yourself a Pippin and be the only idiot in this country
- who has one. Meanwhile, if these Access2's came out, they'd sell like
- hotcakes.
-
-
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