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- From: Zoltan Hunt <zhunt@calumet.yorku.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: SMG or AT: Is anybody out there?
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 20:05:25 GMT
- Organization: Calumet College, York U.
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- >What can Escom sell in the NA market? The A1200? Not a chance.. an 020 and a
- >wedge piece design in 1996 will not cut it...Powermacs and Pentiums can be had
- >for less than a grand..Plus the Bandai Amtrak web surfer for $500...
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- I agree- the A1200 might have some special applications if it could be priced down to, say $300-$400 US, maybe in education (k-12) o=
- r hospital day-care centers as something for the kids to work on, but this is unlikely. I use my A1200HD (expanded) for everything =
- from word-pro though LW, but if I was starting out aginan, I'd definatly have gone for a A4000/30 and built from there, plus, I've u=
- sed C='s stuff for a while so I can get things fixed (no hardware problems yet) and can find dealers, but for your average new compu=
- ter owner, it's just easier to get a clone from a good company and go from there.
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- What I'm waiting on is a PowerPC version of the A1200 with some kind of new chip-set so that it can at least go toe-to-toe with mod=
- ern PCs, though I hope it sits at under-$800 US with a hard-drive. I think the Amiga's software (Word-pro, especially) has come a l=
- ong way, so its really up to AT to forget the current systems and build a great next-generation Amiga that they can then market seri=
- ously.
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- Zoltan
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