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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Nostromo
- From: damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)
- Message-ID: <damocles.3ejn@nostromo.gate.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 12:19:17 EST
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- On Wed 13-Mar-1996 7:11a, Jason Compton wrote:
- JC> Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- JC> : jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) writes:
-
- JC> : >Yes, we KNOW 040s are more expensive. They are also more powerful.
-
- JC> : Obviously. But AT doesn't think that they can compete with high end PCs,
- JC> : so they have to compete with price. The price level of an A1200 (and
- JC> that
- JC> : means: A1200 and not a souped-up-A1200-beyond-reason) attracts people
- JC> that
- JC> : would rarely buy computers.
-
- JC> Not at current prices. Rarely a day goes by when someone doesn't point
- JC> out that for a pittance more, people are taking home 486/100s with hard
- JC> drive and monitor instead of the tired old stock A1200.
-
- I would hope that AT's secondary goal is to cut cost of production (PowerAmiga
- being their primary goal). I fully understand AT had to pay spot market
- prices for the entire production but what are they doing for cutting cost on
- their second year of production?
-
- : damocles@nostromo.gate.net : Bruce Morrow,a man before and after his time:
- :"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the :
- :United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." :
- : - Samual Adams : Morrow Project Recon: The Expendible Ones :
-