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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 11:56:17 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
- Message-ID: <1554.6644T1369T517@netspace.net.au>
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- Marc N. Barrett (barrett@radiks.net) said:
-
- > 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.
-
- And for half that price, you could buy a PC card.
-
- > 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.
-
- Or a full blown Pentium system. Face it Marc, we Mac and Amiga owners should
- be sticking together against the Wintel onslaught, not duking it out between
- ourselves.
-
- I quite like Macs. I also like Amigas. I don't like Microsoft. However, PCs
- are far cheaper than anything else at present and are better marketed, so stop
- going on about prices. We *know* how much cheaper everything else is, and we
- don't care. The Amiga OS is that good.
-
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