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- From: d3karma@dtek.chalmers.se (Mathias Karlsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 14:29:05 GMT
- Organization: Chalmers univ. of Technology
- Message-ID: <4fflnh$84b@nyheter.chalmers.se>
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- jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) writes:
-
- >: 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.
-
- Perhaps. But it's still much better than a standard A1200.
-
- >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?
-
- Sure. I'd like to see a 50MHz A1600/060 selling for < $1000 to be the new
- low-end, but let's be realistic here.
-
- >: Remember this is a Low-End Machine, not a Sparcstation beater!
-
- >A sad fate for the Amiga technology, to be sure.
-
- 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.
-
- >computer must either be sold with more power or for less money. So far,
- >AT is offering neither.
-
- At least they are offering Amigas...
-
- [A1200 has stupid design]
-
- >: The same computer that outsold every other one on the planet with
- >: more than ten million units sold. Good example.
-
- (closer to 20M)
-
- >Yes, it is, considering nobody but Commodore designed their machines like
- >that hence. (Ok, the ST looked somewhat A500ish. And where's the ST?)
-
- The ST was a crap computer, the A500 was not. That's why the Amiga is
- still here, despite all odds (C=).
-
- vh MK, still using his trusty A500.
- --
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