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- From: haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 13:14:12 +0100
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- barrett@radiks.net (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- MAc, Mac,. fuck off with your MAC. We don't want MACS and besides, most
- Amiga users can get a MAC for $0! Can you?!
- Expendable to 8 meg?! Is that all?! and 128-bit architecture alone doesn't mean
- it is fast! You seem to be the kind of gouy that thinks "The higher the
- number, the better the results!" Well, in some cases that's true.
- CyberVision 64 is a pretty good GFX card, up to 1600x1280x256colours.
- (If I remember correct) and 24-bit (32?) in lower modes....
- Personally you think an A1200 is overpriced, I think a any MAC costing more
- than $99 is overpriced, simply because it lacks the OS the Amiga has!
- (And more)
-
- > 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.
-
- Again, I don't need a MAC. I want an Amiga.
-
- Harold.
-