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- From: qmnmaren@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au (Nickolas Marentes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: RISK Amiga. Will it work?
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 06:02:01 GMT
- Organization: University of Queensland
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- With regards to the inclusion of more IBM technology into the Amiga
- design, many have said they feel it is the best thing that could happen.
- I doubt if by using the same hardware as the opposition is enough to win
- the lead. Let's not compare the future Amiga with the current PC's. There
- are a lot of big plans for the PC due in the future with many new
- hardware innovations coming. In 12 months, the RISC Amiga will look just
- like a 200MHZ Pentium Pro with the latest Super3D VGA chipset and Sound
- Blaster chips all running off the new Windows NT operating system.
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- Price will play a big factor. There are a lot more PC manufacturers than
- Amiga manufacturers so PC competition will be high, driving prices down.
- The PC already has about 90% of the market. For many who use a computer
- seriously for wordprocessing or spreadsheet, if it doesn't run Microsoft
- Office, it's not worth buying.
-
- The Amiga needs to play more than a "catch-up" or "a little better" game.
- It has to be MUCH better. The original Amiga succeeded because it was
- designed with technology that was way ahead of what was currently
- available. All AT will be doing is making best use of current technology.
- Yes, the RISC Amigas will be great Amigas but will the rest of the world
- buy it instead of the myriad of future Pentium Pro's or Power Mac? I know
- that the new RISC Amiga will be CHIRP (or whatever it has been renamed
- to) compliant but will somebody buy the RISC Amiga for the Amiga side or
- for the NT/MAC side?
-
- May I stress that I am a Amiga user and hate PC's. I will always buy Amiga.
- I am not trying to create an argument here just constructive debate.
- Please feel free to comment. If I've got it all wrong, please explain it
- to me. I hope I am!
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