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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 05:21:00 GMT
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- Ruud Dingemans (rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : In a message of 04 Feb 96 J. Poag wrote to All:
-
- : JP> Gilles Boring announces that the new A1300 rumored to be launched this
- : JP> March contains a screaming fast, state of the art '030 stuck in an Amiga
- : JP> 1200 case.
-
- : Which still is two to three times faster than what past and current
- : A1200 users have to do with, which in its turn is two to four times
- : faster than A500 performance.
-
- Which is, let's be honest, way behind the performance of its competition.
-
- While the Amiga has never really offered a ton of raw horsepower, it's
- finessed itself against the competition to the point where it was a
- reasonable tradeoff.
-
- 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.
-
- : Remember this is a Low-End Machine, not a Sparcstation beater!
-
- A sad fate for the Amiga technology, to be sure.
-
- : The usability of a computer depends not on its comparison to other
- : CPU's, but on what can be done with it. And even an '020 is plenty
- : for some simple wordprocessing, some Netting and some games, which is
- : what most people (according to multiple user inquiries) use a computer
- : for.
-
- Sure, we think so. But the market dictates that such a general purpose
- computer must either be sold with more power or for less money. So far,
- AT is offering neither.
-
- : JP> Its 1996, and Amiga Technologies, GmbH is the only computer
- : JP> manufacturer left on the entire f@*&$!! planet which still insists
- : JP> on building computers that look like Commodore 64's..
-
- : The same computer that outsold every other one on the planet with
- : more than ten million units sold. Good example.
-
- Yes, it is, considering nobody but Commodore designed their machines like
- that hence. (Ok, the ST looked somewhat A500ish. And where's the ST?)
-
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