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- From: "Robert S. Iacullo" <eagle@serv.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 18:08:28 -0800
- Organization: A.C.C.O.
- Message-ID: <3156001C.141A@serv.net>
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- Byron Montgomerie wrote:
- >
- > 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
-
- I have a 486DX4 120Mhz as a secondary system. I put it together myself
- and it cost about $1500 US. And believe me, it could not have been done
- any cheaper than that. That is without a monitor. A Pentium would have
- cost at least $200 more. By the way, my A4000 w/ Warp Engine 4040 runs
- as fast as the 120Mhz Win95 system for most of what I do.
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- Robert S. Iacullo
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