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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Message-ID: <1996Mar15.141040.53389@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 15 Mar 96 14:10:40 -0600
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu><4i14vt$kkf@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> <4i491v$csl@nyx.cs.du.edu> <150994@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <150994@cup.portal.com>, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
- >>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.
-
- Not unless you have a monitor already like I did when I upgraded to the 7100/80
- for less than $1300. $2000 is far less than the $2800 A4000 plus monitor..
-
- Harv, I see you have a Newton. I am buying a used Newton MP 100 with 1.3 OS
- with a meg.. My use is to keep notes, to do and names. How do you like your
- Newton?
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- >
- > Harv | "Do you recognize the
- > harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- > http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- > hlaser@eworld.com <--- (until 3/31/96) | - Leon Russell
-
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