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- From: dparr@runner (Doug Parr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga Walker (A1200Walker)
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 18:07:15 GMT
- Organization: The Unversity of Texas at San Antonio
- Message-ID: <4imt4j$fn8@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- References: <ivans-1803960422130001@dialup63.syd1.zeta.org.au> <4133.6651T177T352@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4ikjr5$bp3@tkhut.sojourn.com> <DoHu4A.Hnp@ecf.toronto.edu>
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- In article <DoHu4A.Hnp@ecf.toronto.edu> tsangc@ecf.toronto.edu (TSANG Calum Thomas) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >Calum Tsang - Kami Jageman Group Happy Lego 4558 Metroliner Owner
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
- >tsangc@io.org / tsangc@ecf.toronto.edu - Sharon Apple Galaxy Tour 2040
- > See My Lego Page at http://www.io.org/~tsangc/lego.html
-
-
- Take a look at the Web PC's in the March issue of BYTE. They all have a funky
- design. I guess the marketing concept is that they are not trying to sell to
- the typical computer user, but to newbies, who might even be intimidated by
- computers in general. So a funky design may be more appealing. BTW all these
- machines will typically use one generation old cpu's with small effecient OS's.
- No one is planning to use Monolithic Software's We Invented Nothing - 95 OS.
-
-
-
- Doug
- Doug
-