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- From: barrett@radiks.net (Marc N. Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:55:22 -0600
- Organization: Pegasus Consultants Company
- Message-ID: <barrett-1003961155230001@desm-04-26.dialup.netins.net>
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- In article <4htrh3$qld@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, beverins@aol.com (B E
- Verins) wrote:
-
- >Peter Sinclair-Day asks of us all:
- >
- >>>The PowerWave 120(604-120mhz.) has been reduced to $2799 with 16 megs, 1
- >gig, video board, keyboard and software bundle.. Currently a A4000t has a
- >price tag of around $2800 for a slow 040!
- >
- >Why does the A4000t costs soo much and does less?<<
- >
- >As we have tried to tell you (and others) over and over again..... The
- >Amiga has just been reintroduced to the market after an entire year of no
- >sales, and no R&D at all. If Apple suddenly had gone out of business, and
- >hadn't licensed their hardware to Power Computing, do YOU think it would
- >come back to the market at a reasonable price / power, if at all?
- >
- >If AT had waited for the PPC Amiga, there would assuredly have been NO
- >MARKET AT ALL left. Not the market for the Amiga is wonderful right now,
- >but at least it exists!! If AT had waited 'till 1997 to intro a new Amiga,
- >NOBODY at all would have bought it - It would be like the BeBox now, what
- >with no software currently available, etc.
- >
- >YES, the A4000T is too expensive!! That's why smart consumers either buy
- >an A3000 (like I hope to soon), or an A1200 and a tower case which
- >provides Zorro III slots and a video slot.... ;-)
-
- Sorry, but IMO that "Tower A1200" is also overpriced. For one thing,
- it has an INCREDIBLY weak 68020; and second, graphics cards for Zorro III
- are VERY expensive. For the price of a bottom-of-the-line mediocre
- graphics card for Zorro III that uses slow DRAM, there are graphics cards
- available for PCI Macs with a true 128-bit graphics architecture (read:
- VERY fast) and 2M of true VRAM, usually expandable to 8M.
-
- BTW, how much is a complete "Tower A1200" system, including a Zorro III
- graphics card? It's easily possible to put together a complete PCI
- PowerMac system, including a VERY VERY fast graphics card, 16-bit stereo
- full-duplex sound, a 75Mhz PowerPC 601 CPU, 8M of RAM, a quad-speed CD-ROM
- drive, ethernet, and a 500M SCSI hard drive, for well under $2000.
-
- --
- Marc Barrett
- barrett@radiks.net
-