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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 18:10:15 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
- Message-ID: <4jueu7$nsv@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Gary Alan Peake (Gemini2@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- : I have no interest in talking pc pricing, BUT when people here start saying
- : that they can buy pc's and Mac's for a dime on a dollar ... I think we
- : should all be realistic about what they are 'really' getting for their
- : money.
-
- I think I have done that myself, I didn't mention what you are really
- getting when you buy an amiga though. :) The base PC system will need
- what, another 8 megs of ram? A CDROM? Gee, that makes $300 CDN, let's look
- at the amiga side. :) The base amiga system will need ram, cpu,
- monitor, hard drive, scsi controller (because you can only connect two
- devices to current IDE and there are only amiga drivers for scsi devices),
- graphics card, new power supply.. need I go on? I wouldn't even hazzard a
- guess as to what that would cost but it would be over $1000 CDN.
-
- : I know what I got for my money when I bought the A3000/25. It hasn't
- : disappointed me yet.
-
- Good for you. :)
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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