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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 12:56:21 GMT
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- Gary Alan Peake (Gemini2@cup.portal.com) wrote:
-
- : No, some of us DO believe that the Amiga needs to be mass marketed, just not
- : right now. What the heck do they have to market? A few thousand computers
- : that are, for the most part, already sold to end users.
-
- They shouldn't mass market right now but they do need to get a mass
- marketable machine ready to be marketed by March-May. If they wait to
- long, they will miss Christmas '96 in the US. Most mass market companies
- are ordering their stocks in the summer for Christmas and AT needs to
- impress them before they start ordering.
-
- A really impressive mass marketable Amiga for the US should be in a 1000
- like case with a 40mhz LC040, 4MB RAM, 540MB HD, CDROM, SCSI, 2-4 Zorro3
- slots, etc. They need to solve the PAL/NTSC 31khz monitor problem
- with it. Also it would help if they would find some way to get at a chunky
- pixel (up to 800x600x256) in the machine but I think this would be
- pushing it time wise. They could mass market a machine like this but it
- would have to be at a price point just under the price of a Mac/LC040 and
- they need to build up the mass market channel so that Amiga software
- companies could market their wares in the same outlet. As much as some
- people would hate it, I think they should also make the power supply
- external so they would have room to fit more hardware inside.
-
- Chris Hall
-