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- From: jamesm@turtle.apana.org.au (James McArthur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: New Amiga A1300
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 00:16:46 +0930
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- Lynda Callicotte (callicot@eden.rutgers.edu) wrote:
- : dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling) writes:
-
- : >Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : >: Tony Bullock <tony@tonyb.demon.co.uk> writes:
- : >:
- : >: >I personally think the 040 would be a much better option. The Amiga is
- : >: >starting to lag a long way behind in raw CPU power these days. Even my
- : >: >is feeling at little sad only running at 25mhz... Cheap A1200 add-ons run
- : >: >faster than this now.
- : >:
- : >: Think about what you wrote and then consider that a 040 is NOT cheap.
- : >:
- : >Ya but what we are talking about is the A1200+.
- : >If a 040 is to expensive for someone they can get the regular A1200.
-
- : Wait a minute! I use a 68030 andit is plent fast enough for any NORMALL
- : functions! Most computer users aren't making Jurassic Park 2 and don't
- : need much more speed! It's not like we have a superhog OS like IBM users!
- : Play with a 486 or Pentium and you'll see just how damn slow most peoples
- : IBMs are.
-
- If you are just trying to make a games machine, then just put a CPU, two
- card slots and a dirt cheap gfx card in a box with keyboard and AmigaOS;
- coz lets face it, if new users are coming to the Amiga for games, then
- graphics have to better then the PC, and sound has to be better then the
- PC and it needs to be cheaper then the PC..
-
- : --
- : Lynda Callicotte |"What a long, strange trip it's been."
- : Graduate student | -The Grateful Dead
- : Rutgers University |
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