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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 22:06:41 GMT
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- Mathias Karlsson (d3karma@dtek.chalmers.se) wrote:
-
- : >But we've all heard the price comparisons to low-end DX4s and Macs, and
- : >you have to understand that Joe Public making a buying decision won't
- : >care that the 030 is many times faster than the A500, because that's
- : >still many times slower than the P90.
-
- : Well, you can't put a P90 in the A1200, can you?
-
- Nope! And don't think that Intel's multi-million, if not multi-BILLION
- dollar ad campaign for the Pentium(tm) has gone to waste. When they ask
- if it can be upgraded to a Pentium, or Pentium Pro, and they hear "no",
- it's just another strike.
-
- Which is why the negatives of the Amiga's selling points that CAN be
- fixed (price point, performance) need to be, because the ones that can't,
- at least not in the short run (big-name software/hardware support,
- world-class service) are problems enough as it is.
-
- : Sure. But a replacement for A1200 is needed. Shipping a 14MHz 020
- : without fastmem today is stupid, and not offering a reasonably prized
- : low-end computer is also stupid. So I say the A1300, or whatever it
- : will be called, is better than nothing.
-
- Except that it's been cancelled, to be replaced by something else which
- there will (according to my sources at AT) hopefully be a prototype of in
- March.
-
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