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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 11:24:13 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dqjct$gul@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960108.77A4120.F5EA@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4de7ue$du6@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4dfuni$h1d@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4dlvva$hp3@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Summary: Not worth buying
- Keywords: Amigas and PCs
-
- In article <4dlvva$hp3@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- >: >Agreed, although what AT considers a cheap price could get you a 486 running
- >: >TCP software.
- >
- >: You would only get this second hand and God knows what the computer has
- >: been through. The 486s have been discontinued, A1200s are still being
- >
- >: >$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.)
- >
- >: Where to? And do you mean the $1600 P80 is the total price or the rest of
- >
- >Actually, that is an average price based on around 30 ads in The Computer Paper
- >an atlantic magazine. The ads were from companies based all over the
- >country.
-
- Thus you having to deal with shipping charges, adding to the price of
- that and then dealing with possible no warranties or no shops locally
- valuing those warranties.
-
- >: RAM can be used in Amigas, depending what Amiga you have will determine
- >: if you can use a VGA/SVGA monitor standard and if you can't, then you can
- >
- >Say that again once you have tried it and see how much software will run.
-
- I thought the same thing until I saw an A3000 using a VGA monitor and
- practically every piece of software ran on it, flicker free for most at
- that. Software ran from a a .MOD player to a terminal program to games
- to CanDo.
-
- >: Are they in dealers, department stores or at Warehouse places such as
- >: Business Depot or Price Club? Does that configuration have
- >: brand-name/known parts or no name parts which will cause
- >: configurability/compatibility problems and is listed in Windows '95 list
- >: of non supported hardware?
- >
- >How about I just lend you an issue of The Computer Paper and you can answer
- >your own questions.
-
- HAR! :)
-
- >: With the adding a card for ram obviously you are talking about the
- >: current A1200, we already know this is going to change. As for adding
- >: external devices via a card, you have to realize Byron, what you save in
- >: the initial price you have to make up for by upgrading it when you find
- >: it neccessary. You are comparing a low end all in one Amiga to powerfull
- >
- >Realise? That is the only point I have been trying to make with all this.
- >It is the numbers which are getting disproportionate. Get everything for $1600
- >CDN or in bits for $3000. The use of proprietary cards on the amiga means we
- >have to pay double to upgrade. The lack of standards mean only the amiga high
- >end gets to keep cards between models and then only perhaps. Having standard
- >buses is not evil.
-
- Getting everything for $1600 or upgrading at $3000 is life for the
- lowend.. live with it, it is like it with everything.. try getting a loan
- to get anything - ie: to buy a car, leasing out a car, using a credit
- card.. all get what you want because you cannot afford to buy it up front
- so you have to pay more money overall in order to get something. If you
- have the money, fine, go buy the machine that will keep up to date for a
- long time and use plentiful cards as they come out. If you don't, then
- you have to make due with what is best for the buck at the time and then
- upgrade as you have the money to do so, even if it means paying more for
- then a comparable machine.
-
- >: PCs which can be considered high end and are built to be easily expanded
- >: or come with stuff already installed, the Amiga 1200 is not like that and
- >: if you don't like it, then get the next higher up Amiga in which you will
- >: be able to compare it to PCs a bit more.
- >
- >At $4000 CDN an a4000 is not an option. Even if I had the cash I wouldn't buy
- >such a thing. Not when I can get a P133 based machine and have $2000 CDN left
- >over to spend on optional hardware and software upgrades.
-
- I wouldn't buy one either but neither would I buy the PC, I'd wait. >:->
-
- >Lets say the PPC amiga is $1800 CDN in 97, what will PCs cost then? If the
-
- "The PPC Amiga is $1800 CDN in 97, what will PCs cost then?" >:->
-
- >amiga continues with all this proprietary stuff it will not be worth buying.
-
- It got nothing to do with proprietary stuff at all.. it has lots to do
- with the clone business and once Amiga clones become a reality, then you
- will see prices dropping.
-
- -=*George*=-
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