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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 17:39:33 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : >Will production rise or will it be produced for a year then dropped in favour
- : >of the PPC amiga models?
-
- : Well so far there is only talk of the highend Power Amiga and no talk of
- : the lowend or middle-ranged PPC Amigas, though mentioned that they were
- : planned. Assuming they will put all they have into the Power Amiga and
-
- 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.
-
- : see how well it does, it will be 1 - 2 years anyways more then likely
- : before a new lowend PPC Amiga comes out. They will not make as many
- : Power Amigas as they would lowend Amigas. The A1200 Surfer should get
- : decent numbers of machines made as they are less expensive to build and
- : can ship faster. If they sell, more will be made and price will be dropped.
-
- Manufacturing expenses would be about the same, the bulk of the price comes
- from distributed development costs and the cost of better parts.
-
- : >399 UK is around $800 CDN.
-
- : For the stock A1200? Hmm.. if that's the case, yeah, that would be pushing
- : it. I'd rather wait for the A1200+ and for them to promote it.
-
- 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
- have an 030 built in and have simm sockets at the very least, the price will
- not be $800 CDN.
-
- : >: >Because at 399 UK pounds, the A1200 IS NOT GREAT.
- : >
- : >: It will lower.
- : >
- : >Only if nobody buys them IMO.
-
- : True, but it will also lower if a high number of Surfer packs get sold.
-
- At those prices it is not likely, they may get sold after being discounted but
- not before.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-