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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 18:18:16 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Jonathan Belson (jon@dookie.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : Matt Harrell (mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com) wrote:
- : : Byron Montgomerie (bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : :
- : : : It would be $1500 CDN or roughly $1100 US for $1500 DM. And I could get a
- : : : P133 for $1100 US with a monitor. At $1000 DM it would be a good deal for
- : : : amiga owners.
- : :
- : : Where can you find a P133 with monitor for $1100? I've done some
- : : serious looking here in the Lansing, MI area (and mail order) for
- : : Intel/Windows systems for a friend, and P133 systems were *much* more
- : : than that.
-
- : If you buy the cheapest make you can find you'll probably end up regretting
- : it. Some manufactures *really* cut corners to save money.
-
- I think the comparison of the amiga with clone PCs is valid, especially in
- this part of the world where 'amiga' does not mean brand name service. If
- you consider AMD586 cpus (Pentium clones) you are looking at $999 CDN for a
- P133 clone without monitor. The amiga is all about cutting corners to save
- money, that is how they achieved their relatively low price points in the
- past.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-