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- From: Slayerthegreat@prometheus.hol.gr (Touliatos Panagiotis)
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- Subject: Re: Walker Case: two choices.
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 02:01:36 GMT
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- On 04-Apr-96 19:54:10 David Meyer Wrote:
-
- >: >So who's stopping you from buying an AT built A4000?
- >: >
- >: the high cost of it ;-) , the A4000 have about the same cpu power with a
- >: dx2/66 PC clone , but costs 4 times more (including monitor).
- >: I prefer to stick with my 1200 for now, i believe that i have a very
- >: capable system , with the lack of zorro slots of course.
- >: But people out there with unexpanded 1200's are looking for a good and
- >: cheap machine to buy, and i think the walker is not the solution ,just a
- >: small remake of the original 1200 ,this project must get better, and with
- >: a resonable price (and of course with another case!)
- >:
- > Well, "Slayer", I'm not certain where you are from (gr =
- >Germany?) but you're not going to find a PC of any flavor in the US for
- gr=greece
- >1/4 the price of an A4000T. Particularly if you want the monitor
- >included. And real sound, and >4MB of memory, and a >1GB HD, and a full
- here in greece you can find the PC configuration you have described for 1/4 the
- price of A4000T inclounding monitor, you must admit that the monitor for the
- 4000 costs much more ,because you have to go for a multisynch monitor in order
- to see non-flicker resolutions, and the 15Khz ones.
- >tower configuration. Actually, you may not be able to find one with -any-
- >of those specs at that price. What's more, the A4000T with the '040 CPU,
- >running its multi-tasking GUI is actually faster than most PCs available
- yeahh in 4-8 colors run very smooth, how about 256 colors? ,even an old Cirrus
- Logic 5422 card runs windows and os/2 at 800x600x256 faster than any 4000 at
- 640x512x256 .We need a real upgrade ,the walker doesn't offer this yet, maybe if
- they put in it a 24-bit graphics card and a better proceccor ??? who knows?
-
- > The "Walker" is an update to the A1200, according to Petro T.,
- >and incorporates several major improvements. Like the ability to add
- its an upgrade (1MB chip ram !!!) but a minor one.
- >cards (and card slots). If the two in the basic unit are not enough, add
- come on!!! you call an upgrade , the card slots???? they just did what commodore
- had to do at 93 when they launch the 1200 ,the ability to add cards its a nececity
- in computer world ,only commodore didn't realised that ,and they made the console
- style computers (A500, A500+ , A600, A1200), maybe this dezign was good enouth for
- the 80's but not for the 90's.
- >more. And more. You can expand the "Walker" beyond the capacity of an
- >A4000T! The 68EC030 (680EC30?) @ 40MHz may not be the most powerful of
- >CPUs, but it is a >4X improvement on the standard A1200. It's faster than
- so what?? many people already have 030/50 (with MMU) , i believe that these days
- the 030/50 must be the low low low end for amigas ,with the mid range coming up
- with 040's ,and the high end with 060's or PPC's, so after all the walker is not
- a mid range amiga as claimed by AT but a low end machine.
-
- >a standard A3000. It should compare well with most '486-powered PCs
- >running Windows - very well if they are "running" WinNT or Win'95.
- the low end pc (486dx2/66) has at least the double cpu power in comparison with
- an 68EC030 ,so what are we talking about?.
-
- > I'll miss my clean laced screen and SCSI drive when I upgrade
- >from my A3k to a "Walker", but right now I miss the new OS, the 4x
- >CD-ROM, the AGA, the hi-speed serial port, etc. I'm upgrading.
- good luck ;-)
-
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