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- From: Martin Leslie Baker <mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: The March Amigans?
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 96 00:17:02 GMT
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- Susan B. Hussein (hussein@gti.gti.net) wrote:
- : IMHO the _best_ thing Escom has done so far is bring out the 4000 at a
- : hefty sticker price.
- :
- : This ensures that those people who are willing and able to shell out for
- : what they need will get the few boxes available.
-
- I agree that the demand for A4k probably outweighs AT's ability to supply
- at the moment, so they put the price artificially high and make some money.
- I think if we are honest Escom paid _well_ over the odds for the remants of
- C= anyway.
-
- I disagree in principal that the A4k is high. For that price you should be
- getting an 060 @ 50 MHz at least, 1 Gig HD, Quad Speed CD-ROM, some form of
- removable media for backups, a decent gfx card, and A MONITOR.
-
- : What we don't need are more whiners who bought for a song, stole much of
- : their software or failed to make shareware payments, and now say if Escom
- : doesn't deliver pie-in-the-sky for pennies--and in their own personal
- : decorator colors no less--they're off to a clone. Let them go.
-
- Yes. Many of these people have gone to clones. Piracy is a lot more rife
- on clones. For 40 or 50 UKP you can buy one latest PC game, or if you know
- the right people you can buy a CD full with pirated games, or app software.
-
- I agree about the colours. I _like_ the beige of the Amiga. My monitor,
- printer, CD-Rom, external drive are the same colour.
-
- : The more Escom can sell to real users, users who have goals and needs
- : other than boasting about how much computer they have/what smart buys
- : they made, the more software and peripherals will get sold and the more
- : this system will stay alive.
-
- Again, yes and no. I think AT and all of us have to be realistic about
- what Amiga can achieve and what it can't. It can't compete with the clones
- as a general business tool/workhorse. It had it's chance when the A2000
- was launched but C= screwed it up.
-
- It can compete as an internet solution for the home. It can (and probably
- will) be developed into a set top box. It can and should be THE home
- computer. It can be sold as a PPC workstation. All of these "can dos" are
- dependent on AT and ESCOM though, they have to offer the right kit at the
- right price.
-
- : People who _need_ their computers to do what they do will find the money
- : somehow. The more Escom can sell to them, the better off the rest of us
- : cheapskates :) will be.
-
- Yes agreed, but the Amiga is capable of so much more than it's doing at the
- moment. Amiga now shold be competing against the PowerMac. People who
- _need_ more powerful Amigas are leaving to PowerMac and top flight Pentiums
- etc, because in reality Amiga has lost it's advantage in the high end PC
- market. The other platforms have had nearly 5 years to catch up, and
- surpass the Amiga.
-
- +--------+-------------------------------------+------------------------+
- | Martin | Amiga 1200 030 6MB 120MB HD CD-ROM | mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk |
- | Leslie | AT M1438S Supra V32bis | |
- | Baker | Motorola Motivated... Amiga CD32 | Scunthorpe |
- +--------+-------------------------------------+------------------------+
- New A4000 owner..."No monitor? Where's the TV modulator
-