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- From: TAOBERLY@news.delphi.com (TAOBERLY@DELPHI.COM)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technologies NEWSFLASH
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 20:03:40 -0500
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
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- References: <19951215.7682CB8.1521E@Amiga3000.cs.ruu.nl> <4atn23$79f@suba01.suba.com> <4b6e07$oa9@ccub.wlv.ac.uk> <950.6565T993T1719@cais.com> <4c76en$q78@news.mr.net>
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- > )IMHO, the console format computer just reeks of cheap home computer.
- Please,
- > )Amiga Technologies, put the A1300 into a pizza box case with a separate
- > )(A4000?) keyboard!
- > )
- > )This way it could be easy to provide a single Zorro slot (optional) and
- > )ample room for internal CD-ROMs, hard drives and other add-on boards...
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- > This way you raise the cost of the unit so high for the low end
- > home market where Ami is targeted that noone will buy one...
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- I agree that there should always be a low-end console machine for the gamers
- and the casual users, but there has been a gap between low end and high end
- Amigas for far too long. If a mid-range AGA unit with a detached keyboard,
- '030 and '882, 2 or 3 zorro slots, simm sockets, an edge connector for
- processor expansion, built-in EIDE, and room for at least one internal floppy
- and 3 1/2" hard drive (a 5 1/4" CD-Rom bay would be nice) existed two or
- three years ago, I would have bought one!!! But now I really doubt AT will
- bother, as most of their R&D efforts are going into the Power Amigas. If we
- don't see something like this in 1997, though, they will be losing a fair
- share of customers.
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- The way I see it, there should be at least four Amiga models in production:
- 1) low end console, 2) mid-range desktop, 3) high end desktop, 4) high-end
- tower.
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- Todd
- taoberly@delphi.com
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