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- Path: cup.portal.com!Harv
- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 10:00:13 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <150994@cup.portal.com>
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu>
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- >haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink) writes:
- >
- >>sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY) writes:
- >
- >>>Why does the A4000t costs soo much and does less?
- >
- >>For about $0 one can get SHAPESHIFTER! Ever bought a MAC for $0?!
- >>No?! What a pity......And besides, you're talking about future prices (MAC)
- >>and comparing them to todays prices (A4000). A little bit unfair?!
- >>Besides, I prefer Amiga over MAC AND PEECEE together. And buying a MAC and
- >>A PEECEE would cost me more than........An A4000. A *LOT* more!
- >
- >Where do you plan to get the Mac roms for free? Pirate them? Today you
- >can buy a low-end P-Mac 6116 for less than $1000 complete with a CD-ROM
- >drive, 8 Megs of Ram, a 500 Meg hard drive, 16-bit sound, etc. etc.
- >Monitor would cost extra.
-
- Monitor would cost extra. Heh.. sure. like $700 extra. And don't
- forget the keyboard. That's extra too. When you're all said and done,
- your PowrMac 6100/66 is pushing $2000.
-
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