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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!john.hendrikx
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 96 20:52:23 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
- Message-ID: <john.hendrikx.44y8@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 04 Jan 96 Andreas Rossbacher wrote to All:
-
- >> : Is the machine AT plans to show at CeBIT a new design? of is it :
- >> just a crap chip ram 1200 /w 40 MHZ 030?
-
- >> If Amiga Tech unveils another fucking machine with a non-detatachable
- >> keyboard, they can kiss my buying dollar goodbye.
-
- AR> Sometimes it comes to my mind that you guys are sitting on your brains.
- AR> So please think first then write it down.
-
- I think he's right here, although I would settle for a A1200 style case with a
- cheap and easy way to upgrade it to a standard tower/pizza casing with
- detacheable keyboard provided by AT themselves.
-
- A computer in a keyboard-casing reminds people of the C-64 and all those other
- slow and old home-computers. That's the last thing you could want.
-
- >> Thats another thing. 4x CD-ROM drives are now extremely cheap as well.
- >> $150 for a 4x CD-ROM isn't asking much.
-
- AR> It is all *so* *cheap*. But if you sum it up you can see that it is more
- AR> than thought.
-
- You get what you pay for, take a good long look at the current line of A1200's.
- They really put decent Amiga's and decent Computers in general to shame (ie,
- no monitor, no hd, dd-drive, only 2 MB, no fast graphics, 8-bit sound, no VGA
- plug standard, crappy powersupply, etcetera...). When you sum it all up the
- A1200 is very expensive. People buy it because it seems cheap due the absolute
- lower price, but when you put things into perspective it isn't so cheap at all.
-
- Grtz John
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