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- From: tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Message-ID: <DoB0sw.CxI@bton.ac.uk>
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- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:22:07 GMT
-
- PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- : PM 7600 will use 120 mhz 604. Price is around $3000 for a configuration with 16
- : megs ram, 1 gig and 4x cdrom.. Currently a A4000t has a price tag of around
- : $2800 for a slow 040!
-
- MHz speeds don't make a *WHOLE* computer system.
-
- : PM 7200 will use a 120 mhz 601 and the harddrive will be boosted to 1.2gig.
- : Price, $1900...Currently a A4000t has a price tag of around $2800 for a slow
- : 040!
-
- I reiterate - MHz speeds don't make a *WHOLE* computer system.
-
- : MacWeek also states that the PM 8500 and 9500 will have higher clock speeds..
-
- Clock speeds - haven't we been here before?
-
- : PowerComputing will announce price drops for their PowerWave line...
-
- : The PowerWave 120(604-120mhz.) has been reduced to $2799 with 16 megs, 1 gig,
- : video board, keyboard and software bundle.. Currently a A4000t has a price tag
- : of around $2800 for a slow 040!
-
- Do I have to say it again?
-
- : Why does the A4000t costs soo much and does less?
-
- Yes, the A4000T is over-priced. I'd still buy it if I had the money though.
- Slow 040!!! For Christ sake- it's what you *DO* with those MHz thats
- important. The Mac's wasted them on the LC's/ Performas of the time. The
- A4000 usesthem well. Unless you want to do V.Complex maths - MHz & clock
- cycles etc. don't mean a great deal - and if I needed to do that sort of work,
- I'd by a SPARCstation or something!
-
- Why oh Why must people insist on comparing MHz and Clock speeds. It's
- starting to get annoying. It was amusing at first listening to people boast
- about their new xxx Mhz machine, whilst we in the know quietly chuckled to
- ourselves thinking what ignorant fools they are making of themselves. Now,
- it's getting annoying. If you want to argue about chips take it do
- alt.tech.geek.bigHertz or something. This is a System group, talking about
- the whole picture not one part of it!
-
- I actually gave Mac owners more credit than this Mr Sinclair-Day. You sound
- horribly like a PC Clone owner. I'm not for standing in the way of progress,
- but please look at all aspects of the point before putting forward your
- arguments. The Amiga community is not fooled by any of this non-sense. Any
- other computer system that went through what we did when C= bought it would
- have collapsed. It is credit to the computer, it's system and its people that
- it is still going and *starting* to expand again.
- --
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- * Tim Lewis (a.k.a Eddie) * "You think I'm crazy! *
- * * You wouldn't know what crazy was *
- * T.Lewis@bton.ac.uk * if Charles Manson was sitting on *
-