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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 15:42:08 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4fiecg$klj@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960124.7A06650.E10D@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4f38be$fo4@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4f5e25$h8p@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4fdcgl$dnn@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Summary: Home market and pricing
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- In article <4fdcgl$dnn@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
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- >As far as I am concerned the low end is their market, even with a high end PPC
- >amiga they are only raising the hardware so that they can compete os-wise with
- >microsoft. If they are going to drop the idea of selling to the home market
- >then they will have to take the hardware suggestions mentioned here even more
- >seriously.
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- They are not dropping the home market as they know that is their main
- market. But I think they are concentrating on the Power Amiga highend
- first before moving into the lowend market again with a PPC machine.
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- >
- >But will the a1200+ be $800 CDN or much more? When you look at $800 for the
- >bare a1200, $600+ for an 030 card and a 4 meg simm, and $300 for a hard drive
- >you are getting into high end Pentium territory. Considering the a1200+ will
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- But the thing is I personally do not want a Pentium, I want an Amiga, if
- I have to pay more for it fine. Others may not agree and it will be
- interesting to see what the public has to say when they are released.
-
- -=*George*=-
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