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- From: cdodd@super.win.or.jp (Chris Dodd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.tech
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 16:55:34 GMT
- Organization: "Internet WIN, Tokyo,JAPAN"
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- "TOMMY K. HWANG" <thwang@home.mysolution.com> wrote:
-
- >Alan L.M. Buxey wrote:
- >>
- >> Greg Thomson posted the following:
- >> : Ok, here is why I think Amigas, includeing my A1200 with a 50 Mhz 030 and
- >> : 16 megs of ram suck:
-
- > A1200... that console? Ofcourse..
-
- >> : 2. Graphics cards are too expensive and they are not as fast as their PC
- >> : counterparts.
- >>
- >> The CyberVision 64-bit S3 h/w is exactly the same as for PCs...
- >> Dumb question and answer... A1200 do not have Zorro
- >slots. It would not work anyway. Expansion for Zorro costs
- >as much as boxed Amigas if it even exists on the market.
-
-
- >> : 3. Amigas are expensive
- >>
- >> so? so are pentiums etc..
-
- > I've spend over $10,000 on a pentium (HW and OS only)
- >and you say Amiga is expensive?
-
- Err, what did you buy? I got a pentium 100 with 24 megs of RAM,
- 1.5 gig hd space, soundblaster 32, 15" flat screen color, linux, X,
- etc for less than $3000. Of course my Amiga 1200 was considerably
- less, but that is another issue.
-
- Chris
-
- Chris Dodd
- cdodd@super.win.or.jp
-
- Passing my senior year at Waseda University in Japan.
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