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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 18:55:10 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : To appreciate it? No it doesn't, a cheap price with decent capabilties is
- : all it needs to sell, especially the Surfer bundle.. people will see it
-
- Agreed, although what AT considers a cheap price could get you a 486 running
- TCP software.
-
- : >Comparing prices, PCs and amigas are around the same. With PCs you get
- : >standards and cheap upgrades but bulky software and you generally have to buy a
- : >bundle of hardware to start. With the amiga you get proprietariness up the
-
- : HAR! Oh I have got to quote this.. "With PCs you get standards" HAR!
-
- Sure, lots of standards. :) At least there are some and they are all
- supported. You can't keep any cards you have when you move from one model of
- amiga to another. With the PC you simply pick a motherboard that supports the
- cards you have. (PCI + VL is a bad idea though)
-
- : You must be talking about the low end Amiga then huh which is meant to be
- : good enough as is and expand when you need to and have the cash to.
- : Resent getting an Amiga? If so, then why do you not have a PC since then
- : are "basically the same price". >:->
-
- If you are disputing the same price thing consider:
-
- CDN pricing,
-
- $1600 P80 with $300 SVGA monitor, $280 850 MB hard drive, $200 CDROM drive.
- (Not to mention the HD floppy, 8 megs of ram etc.)
-
- This versus:
-
- $800 amiga 1200. Which you have to use with a tv, find an old rgb
- monitor a year away from deaths door, or a multisync which can cost as much as
- the machine. A machine you have to hack a 3.5" ide hard drive into or fork out
- extra cash for a 2.5" one on a machine that is not a laptop. A machine you
- have to buy a card for to add ram or connect external devices to.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-