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- From: felix_daske@mindlink.bc.ca (Felix Daske)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: 1996 Amiga Home Computer?
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 04:17:21 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- On 31-Dec-95 03:15:36 Martin Leslie Baker at mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk wrote:
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- MLB> '88, and at that time it was quite simply the best value for money
- MLB> computer around. That 500 lasted 4 years (I did treat it rough!) and I
- MLB> went straight out and bought another. Two days later the 500+ was in
- MLB> the shops, damn. Mid '92 I was still using a 1 MB 2 drive A500. I
-
- That's not anyone's fault - it happens...
-
- MLB> I gave serious consideration to a PC, but I bought an A1200 because it
- MLB> was the best value for machine on the market. In the last 3 years I've
- MLB> expanded my system much more than my 500. 120 MB hard drive, CD-ROM,
- MLB> 24-pin and Bubble Jet printers, GVP 68030 + 4 MB, v32 bis Modem, and
- MLB> most recently an Amiga M1438S monitor.
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- Good for you - a computer without a hard drive is not that useful.
-
- MLB> What I've spent in the last 3 years would buy me a really good P130
- MLB> today, but I preferred the modular approach of expanding my system as
-
- Of course - power goes up and price comes down so - what's new?! Not realy
- sure what u r saying here - you have a printer and a modem, a CD-ROM...
- a monitor (let's compare apples to apples the $300 GBP has to be used in both
- calculations).
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- MLB> So what's my point. Well it's dead simple. The Amiga is no longer the
- MLB> best value for money machine around, not by a long shot. It is the
-
- Depends what you need a compter for :-) The A1200 is good value - by any
- standard. Sounds like you are trying to justify changing platforms. Go
- ahead! Your money, your call.
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- MLB> In 1990, a humble 1 MB A500 could play games as well as the popular PCs,
- MLB> it could do a lot of things as well as the PCs. Now, an A1200 costs
- MLB> about
- MLB> 400 GBP, 500 GBP for the HD version. Joe Public can buy a 486 DX2 66
- MLB> with HD, monitor, CD-ROM and a 14" monitor for around 700 GBP. Alright
- MLB> I've just paid 300 GBP for the Amiga Monitor, for three times that I
- MLB> could have bought a decent P90 system. That doesn't bother me too much,
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- So what? The 300 GBP for the monitor applied to both systems.
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- MLB> Bottom line is this, if I were buying a system from scratch today, I
- MLB> wouldn't even consider an Amiga, it's too old and too damn expensive.
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- 500 GBP is not a *lot* of money to pay for a system with this capability and
- software - oh, ya, did you say that you get all this nice software with the
- 486?!
-
- MLB> As for the new Amigas, if they ever arrive, ATg have really got to be
- MLB> looking at PPC, or at the very least an 060 @ >50 MHz, and with much
- MLB> faster video by the end of '96. 6 MB at least with at least .5 GB drive
- MLB> as standard, selling at todays price. If not ATg will die.
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- U R *not* going to see this happenning at the current price point. The 060s
- are *much* more expensive then the current crop of 030 which IMHO are a fine
- CPU.
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- Buy the 486 and enjoy it! But don't try and tell me that the A1200 is not
- good value.
-
- ... regards
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