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- From: HAAVARD JAKOBSEN <haa_jako@gih.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga Walker (A1200Walker)
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:43:37 +0100
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- Scott J Cape wrote:
- >
- > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.hardware: 18-Mar-96 Re: Amiga
- > Walker (A1200Walker) Matt Harrell@sojourn1.so (960)
- >
- > > 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 personally dislike it quite a bit. It looks, quite simply, like a
- > toy. I think it would be very difficult for any company to effectively
- > market something like that and expect to be taken seriously.
-
- I agree.... Why not make it a samll tower instead... Would propably be
- cheeper too... And make the 4000 a big tower (oh, it is...)
-
- > A brand new company trying to reintroduce something that most people
- > have never heard of in the first place should not be taking such
- > chances. If anything, AT should try experimenting with the power and
- > usability of the computer, not the case... A sales pitch like
- > "...totally new approach to personal computing..." would be much more
- > appealing than "We've got a neat looking box!" I've got no probelm with
- > trying to experiment to come up with new hardware system or OS to make
- > the new model stand out from the crowd, but I think this latest
- > incarnation is a little rediculous.
- >
- good point!
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