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- From: Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 02:30:44 GMT
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- > EXACTLY!!! Most people have NO IDEA what a PeeCee really is. They buy it b
- > of the brainwash they are exposed to; PeeCee ads are everywhere and so are P
- > And, let's put something straight: AMIGAS WERE NOT MADE TO BECOME THE ULTIMA
- > GAMES MACHINES!!! But that *@%#! company Commodore marketed them as "home"
- > machines and consequently they became toys in the eyes of the public.
-
- Amigas were orignally designed to be the ultimate games machine, back in 1982
- but thne the botom dropped out of the video games market so the team converted
- the machine into a computer..
-
- Got to agree with you about people not knowing what they are buying when they
- buy a PC, I used to work on technical support and the amount of people that
- didn't know what they had in their machines is unbelievable...
-
- Thing that has always annoyed me is that Commodore was there before IBM with the
- business computer which was accepted by everyone, the Commodore PET..
-
- They managed to shaft that up, they made BILLIONS of dollars from the C64, they
- pissed all that away, they got the Amiga managed to kill themselves off with
- it..
- Is it any surprise with that track record they died??
-
- Maybe Atari should have got the Amiga all that time ago..
-
-
-
- > But the crowd can NOT see it because it's behind the scenes.
-
- Funny that isn't it, with ALL the wonderful advertising that Escom and AT are
- doing :->
-
- > [stuff about multitasking and things]
-
- Thats the thing tho.. Go into any store and enquire about buying a computer for
- word processing and graphics, plus playing games.
-
- You get a PC shoved in your face... even in Escom store you get this..
-
- The Ami is perfectly capable of doing this.
-
- But get Joe Public to pick a machine
-
-
- PC - Pentium 120Mhz, 1200 meg HD, 4x CD ROM, 16 Meg Ram - 1200 quid(ish)
- Amiga - 68040 25Mhz, 540 Meg HD, 6 Meg ram - 2200 quid(ish)
-
- Mr. Public looks at the numbers Big numbers impress him, excpet the price
-
- How do you expect the Amiga to compete at a thousand quid more for "less"
-
-
- At and Escom HAVE to drop the price by at least a grand, or there is no hope
-
- Lee
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