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- From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker pix: What *is* that?!?
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:12:12 GMT
- Organization: U.S.R.A/NRL
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- In article <wfblanDoKK8q.7wu@netcom.com>, wfblan@netcom.com says...
- >
- >howard daniel joseph (djhoward@students.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- >: I'm looking at the first pictures I've run accross of Walker ...
- >: it looks like a large black beetle.
- >
- >: And I think ... Volkswagon Beetle ...
- >
- >: It's pretty ugly, imho, but we'll see how it kicks ... maybe it
- >: could take off with custom paint jobs and stuff, being really
- >: silly/stylish looking ... :)
- >
- >: http://www.doremi.co.uk/walker/walker2.gif
- >: http://www.doremi.co.uk/walker/Walker.gif
- >
- >
- >It keeps crossing my mind that the new "Walker" is more of a set-top system
- >than a desk-top system. Its interesting style would work as a set-top box
- >pretty nicely. However, MANY want a new desk-top system to upgrade from
- >their A500's and A2000's. Maybe they could have a slightly more 'common'
- >looking version of the Walker aimed more at the desk-top arena, and keep
- >the current 'odd' look for the set-top arena. The odd look is less likely
- >to be an issue in that arena.
- >
- Doesn't it occur to you that, if those A500/A2000 owners really were
- going to upgrade their desktop Amiga, they've already done so. We've
- got the A1200 at reasonable price, used A3000s in excess supply,
- A4000 desktops at a premium. What these people who still own A500s,
- A2000s want is quite likely irrelevant to AT, which needs to sell to
- new customers. Whether what they've made will satisfy that, no
- opinion here. Also debuting as a set-tup box is the Oracle
- "black office towers" design, at $500 probably ROM-based programming.
-
- Greg
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