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- From: tsangc@ecf.toronto.edu (TSANG Calum Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Walker (A1200Walker)
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- Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
- References: <ivans-1803960422130001@dialup63.syd1.zeta.org.au> <4133.6651T177T352@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4ikjr5$bp3@tkhut.sojourn.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 02:40:58 GMT
-
- In article <4ikjr5$bp3@tkhut.sojourn.com>,
- Matt Harrell <mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com> wrote:
- >I personally like the looks of the preproduction Walker. I think that
- >AT needs to distance the Amiga from the rest of the PC pack. I doubt
- >that they are going to break into the business world with the Amiga,
- >After all, many of the high-end workstations such as SGI and Sun have
- >had rather unusual shapes and colors. I think that many people
- >associate this with "power".
-
-
- SGI Indy: Turquoise "split diagonal" box pizza box
-
- Sun SPARC: Beige with light purple accent
- wide pizza box (Sparc 5,10,20) or small
- system unit (Sparc IPC etc)
-
- NeXT: All black, flat magnesium pizza box or cube
-
- Amigawalker: Black bowlingball bag
-
- I really have to say, when I compare these machines with this new
- Amiga Walker prototype, I don't get a feeling of power. I get a sickly
- feeling of some German guy going nuts with his CNC machine, drilling out
- a funny shape. I think this new prototype is plain ugly, and shouldn't
- be compared to the contemporary stylings of these great workstations.
-
- My immediate reaction was: Doesn't that look like a early
- eighties arcade console, what was it called....Vectrix or something? The
- one that used vector graphics.
-
- Even the bland A1200 case is better than this. Or the plain
- A4000 case. This prototype doesn't even MATCH the A3000 for styling.
-
-
-
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