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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 01:34:00 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4g0mu8$689@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Summary: Yippe hi ho kaia!
- Keywords: Commodore revisited
-
- In article <4flp9h$k7s@flood.xnet.com>,
- Jason Compton <jcompton@flood.xnet.com> wrote:
- >Mathias Karlsson (d3karma@dtek.chalmers.se) wrote:
- >
- >: >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?
- >
- >Nope! And don't think that Intel's multi-million, if not multi-BILLION
- >dollar ad campaign for the Pentium(tm) has gone to waste. When they ask
- >if it can be upgraded to a Pentium, or Pentium Pro, and they hear "no",
- >it's just another strike.
-
- Then it is up to the dealer/salesman to explain why they wouldn't want to
- put a Pentium into an Amiga let alone have the fuss of bloated software
- requiring increased MHz and RAM to run.
-
- >: low-end computer is also stupid. So I say the A1300, or whatever it
- >: will be called, is better than nothing.
- >
- >Except that it's been cancelled, to be replaced by something else which
-
- Oh great, we have Commodore all over again with starting and not
- finishing products! This isn't going to be good for AT's rep unless they
- can unleash something a lot better.
-
- >there will (according to my sources at AT) hopefully be a prototype of in
- >March.
-
- Let's see.. a lowend PPC Amiga with improved graphics and has AGA built
- into the PPC chip for backwards compatibility OR a PPC/68030 lowend Amiga
- giving the best of both worlds.
-
- I just wish they ship SOMETHING to North America SOON or for me
- personally, I'll start looking in the second hand scene again soon... I
- want to give my support to AT though.
-
- >--
- >Jason Compton jcompton@xnet.com
- >Editor-in-Chief, Amiga Report Magazine (708) 741-0689 FAX
- >You know you're on the way out... it's just a matter of time.
- >AR on Aminet - docs/mags/ar???.lha AR Mailing list - Mail me
- >WWW - http://www.omnipresence.com/Amiga/News/AR, www.cucug.org/ar/ar.html
-
- -=*George*=-
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