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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: New slot box Amiga
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 08:02:29 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4hgsel$2o3@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Really the A1300?
- Keywords: A1300 or A5000 or Power Amiga?
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- It was announced the production of the A1200+/A1300 was cancelled and
- that it was contracted out to be redesigned. My question is, is this
- machine really going to be the A1300 or has the new lowend Amiga been
- cancelled altogether?
-
- The original design for the A1300 was going to be a slight modification
- to the A1200 case and motherboard but now is being said to be a slot box
- when finished. Will this remain the lowend or are they scrapping the
- idea and starting work on an A5000 desktop with the '060 standard and AGA
- chipset? Or could this be the startings of the Power Amiga? If so would
- the A4000t be the new "lowened" and would they be able to lower prices
- enough for it to be considered that?
-
- Considering the viewpoint of an all-in-one case by some of AT officials,
- it was crucial to get the lowend price range yet now they decide to have
- the "lowend" a slot box? Would this be the equivalent of an A1200T or
- will it be a desktop? Seeing as how there is nothing new going to be in
- the new lowend (chipset/drive wise) wouldn't a slot box AGA lowend Amiga
- be reinventing the A4000 desktop as someone else put it or would they
- only be adding a slot for RAM/Drives and a graphics slot and leaving out
- the PC slots? How will this affect the price range and would the lowend
- processor still be the '030 as talked about or higher?
-
- Better question.. will this be reveiled at the CeBIT and how long after
- would mass production/distribution take place?
-
- Or was this all a hoax and they are sticking to the original plan but
- decided to release this news perhaps to boost A1200 sales stopping people
- from waiting for the "A1300"?
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- -=*George*=-
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