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- From: "Michael M. Rye" <1726@topcity.mn.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 20:07:09 GMT
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- jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")wrote:
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- ??> A little while ago my father bought a Pentium 60 and was told that this
- ??> was an awesome machine... Now the machine is about as awesome as my 6
- ??> speed bike
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- JR>But with a PC you can just swap the CPU (and motherboard if necessary)
- JR>for something faster as they come along. You don't have to ditch the
- JR>whole unit like you do with a console.
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- JR>Jolyon (who wishes C= had released the A3000+ upgrade motherboard for his
- JR>machine....)
- --
- Why would you have to ditch the whole machine (i.e. like you say "a console"??
- On the A1200 you can put in different accelerator boards. Hell, that's just
- like putting a new CPU card into the processor slot of our Compaq machines
- here at work!
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