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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 11:32:58 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- rycohen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ross Y Cohen) writes:
-
- >variety PC is becoming rather powerful. And if you want to, you can spend
- >less money and pick up a 486 for little more than a comparably equiped
- >Amiga. My point here is that our vaunted mid-range-performance-for-low-
- >cost market is dissappearing too.
-
- Well, no. Just the term "mid range performance" varies in absolute
- numbers.
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- But the problem of PCs is that it is harder to use "mid range" or even
- "low end" machines at all because the PC software demands more.
-
- >developement going on at AT is a good thing, but there is a reason for
- >the $600+ price tag. Decent CPU, hard drive, 6+ M ram, etc.
-
- This, just means higher numbers for advertising. But what can you do
- more with the "decent CPU, bigger hard drive and more RAM" ?
-
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- Michael van Elst
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