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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Message-ID: <1996Mar12.140206.53320@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 12 Mar 96 14:02:06 -0600
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu> <4htrh3$qld@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <barrett-1003961155230001@desm-04-26.dialup.netins.net> <4i15ek$lcf@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <4i15ek$lcf@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>, haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink) writes:
- > 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)
-
- Thats how we former Amiga owners feel, that the Amiga is not worth the
- silicon.. Simply, put it, the Amiga lacks the apps that the Mac/PC has!!
-
- >
- >> 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.
-
- Get one by all means..It's your money and you are in the minority..
-
- >
- > Harold.
-
- GREETINGS..
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