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- From: Christian-Eberhard Just <just@zfn.uni-bremen.de>
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- Subject: There
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:35:25 +0100
- Organization: Universitaet Bremen
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- The only chance to gain NEW users is price - though the Amiga may be
- more powerful (OS,...) than PCs/Macs, those are mostly easier to use
- (well not to use, but at least they can work with all the standards).
- There has to be a lowend new Amiga that should not cost more than 500 -
- 700 Mark (400 US$ ?). Integrate and get rid off the expensive costum
- chips, try to use simms, put it in a small beautiful case, as small as
- the A600 (still like the tiny carry-and-compute case), as beautiful as
- apples design studies and make 2 different machines for middle and high
- end users...
- As Manfred Schmitt (Escom) said, "there is a market for homecomputing
- under 1000 Mark" - yes, but the current Surfer costs 1200 DM. This is
- too much, if a pentium costs only 1600 on the next shelv.
- Non-Computer-fans will not buy either, people who need a pc for
- wordprocessing (most students, anyone who writes regularly), will vote
- for a pc, and the multimedia people are attracted by cheap macs / bad
- "multimedia" pcs (though scala is said to be better on pc now than it
- is on the amiga)...
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- I hope AT can offer more for less - the only chance we have (though I
- will use my amiga for music/www for some time, even if AT would crash).
-
- Greetings,
-
- Christian
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