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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 08:40:04 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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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 f
- o
- >r
- >: : : 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 keep seeing things like 'the Amiga is all about cutting corners' or Amiga
- Technologies needs to know that 'the Amiga is about inexpensive' and this
- just isn't true!
-
- The A1000 was NOT inexpensive when it came out! The 2000 was NOT
- inexpensive when it came out! I know for certain that when I bought my
- 3000, I could have bought two clones instead for the same price! The 4000
- wasn't and isn't 'cheap'.
-
- The Amiga isn't about CHEAP, it's about DIFFERENT!
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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