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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 20:33:27 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Gary Alan Peake (Gemini2@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- : 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!
-
- No, amigas are really expensive considering all the corner cutting done with
- the hardware. :) And low price points doesn't necessarily mean in
- comparison with PCs.
-
- : 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'.
-
- What about the a500 and the a1200? These are the numbers machines, the
- ones that sell in the thousands rather than the hundreds. The amiga is not
- about the high end and the few that own them.
-
- The a4000 is 'cheap', just not in price. :)
-
- : The Amiga isn't about CHEAP, it's about DIFFERENT!
-
- Only when different is better. Then it is eccentricity, otherwise it is
- stubborness and worse. I don't place a lot of value in the rebel without a
- cause market.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-