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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
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- Date: 17 Mar 1996 19:54:13 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Jeff Grimmett (jgrimm@bitnova.com) wrote:
- : Jason, a CISC Amiga isn't a "leadership statement" PERIOD. This ain't
- : the end objective of thier product line, it's simply a mechanism to give
- : them a wider product line that makes SENSE as opposed to an obnoxiously
- : under-expandable console -or- an obnoxiously expensive tower.
-
- You think it will be a mid range model? One way to look at it I suppose.
- Seems more like a slightly modified a1200 to me.
-
- : If you, and others like you, insist on overloading the BASE model of the
- : new Amiga with high-priced components, then you're sending a statement of
- : your own: the message that you wish to exclude a large segment of the
- : potential Amiga market.
-
- Consisting of current amiga owners only. No one says current amiga owners
- won't buy new amigas, but who else will?
-
- : I think the EC030 is just FINE for the ---> BASE <--- machine. It has a
- : frinkin' CPU slot, have you forgotten how we did things back in 1990,
- : with the A2000? Drop in a different CPU card, and boom, a new model.
-
- : ATg have made a logical, low-cost BASE machine that is probably going to
- : be in reach for a LOT more people than an 040-based or 060 based system
- : would.
-
- Probably is the operative word, it will depend on the price of the thing.
-
- : Bellyache all you want about it, but I think I can speak for a LOT of
- : Amiga owners: an EC030/40 Mhz is a LOT faster than what I'm using NOW,
- : and throw in AGA graphics... well. Thumb your nose at us all you want,
- : Jason, but remember that not everyone is using a 120 MHz 060
- : dual-processor Amiga quite yet...
-
- AGA is barely adequate, worse yet the os defaults to PAL/NTSC for
- everything. If the 'walker' defaults to PAL/NTSC instead a svga compatible
- mode I for one won't buy it. A cpu slot doesn't add the ability to use
- graphics cards by itself, either special versions have to be made or you
- will have to buy an additional adapter. There is a distinction to be made
- between gradually upgrading your system and being tied to a money pit.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-