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- Path: cobra.uni.edu!sinclap2954
- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (NAME)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Message-ID: <1996Mar16.112658.53401@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 16 Mar 96 11:26:58 -0600
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu> <DoB0sw.CxI@bton.ac.uk>
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- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <DoB0sw.CxI@bton.ac.uk>, tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Not in the Amiga's case.. What does make a whole system? Having PCI, VRAM and
- PPC? That makes the whole system..
-
- >
- > : MacWeek also states that the PM 8500 and 9500 will have higher clock speeds..
- >
- > Clock speeds - haven't we been here before?
- >
-
- What is your point?
-
- > : 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?
-
- Say it over and over..The Amiga is way behind considering that the price tag of
- 3 grand..
- >
- > : 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!
-
- Oh, please...If you want to stay in the dark ages, that is your right. How do
- you expect the apps to advance if the hardware in the case of the Amiga is
- holding innovation back?
-
- Mac's wasted the 040 on the low cost LC and Performa? Why?
-
- >
- > 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!
-
- Sheesh..More denial..
- >
- > 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.
- > --
-
- Are you speaking for the Amiga community? Or speaking for yoursel? .The Amiga
- starting to expand again..Thats an oxymoron...
-
-
-
- > ***************************************************************************
- > * 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 *
-
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