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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 17:41:23 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- : Ruud Dingemans (rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : : Yes. I still think it's reasonable *IF* the price is low enough.
- : : If it ain't - and I'm talking $ 500 or less for a bare 1200 here -
- : : it's indeed losing out.
-
- : Any price increase in the computer market over time is suicidal. $500 is
- : still $100 more than Commodore sold it for 2 years ago. If you want to
- : talk $300, that's a possibility.
-
- That is actually what I would consider a good settling down price. You could
- maintain continuing sales with that price. That is about the cost of a
- playstation which has better graphics but then again it is not a computer.
-
- : : Sure, but not everybody has the money to buy a P90. It's not
- : : only comparisions, but also hard-cash budget limitations that
- : : affect the sale of a computer. In the 80's, people bought $ 300 C64's
- : : because they couldn't afford $ 1000 PC's. I still think that applies
- : : in the 90's.
-
- : Except those people don't have a $300 alternative anymore, they have a
- : $600 alternative that looks pretty silly next to the $1000 DX4 sitting
- : next to it, because the DX4 has a monitor.
-
- In Canada, it is the $800 CDN bare bones a1200 (In thory, none here yet and NEW
- left over CBM ones are going for $950 CDN) versus the $1100 CDN 486dx4 at
- 100Mhz with svga monitor, hard drive et al. You can buy a Soundblaster card
- (8 bit) for $20 CDN that is technically the same as the amiga sound and a svga
- card that is many times faster with higher resolutions for $100 CDN (Included
- anyway). The most the a1200 is worth here is $500 CDN, it would sell well at
- $400 CDN.
-
- : People could care less if the sound and video are on the motherboard or
- : not. And while the Amiga is CHEAPER than a few clones, it's not offering
- : the same value to a regular consumer.
-
- The amiga 1200 is only cheaper for around a week after you buy it. Then you
- realise how much you have to upgrade it to get anything out of it.
-
- : : It still exists only because its users WANT IT TO - with a vigour
- : : probably never seen before in computing.
-
- : I'll buy that.
-
- You won't see any new people with that kind of vigour though.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-