From: | Gary Peake |
Date: | 7 Jun 2001 at 17:27:06 |
Subject: | Re: cost of amigaone ? |
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:20:40 +0200, "Vidar Langberget"
<vlangber@grm.hia.no> wrote:
>From: "Clyde Hannan" <hannan@intekom.co.za>
>> > > Have you personally compared the two in the same PC under the same
>exact
>> > > conditions?
>> > >
>> >
>> > You're not doing anyone a favour by hyping the G450/G400. People will
>only
>> > be disappointed. It is old and slow in 3D.
>>
>> I think that what Gary was saying - and I'm quite sure he said it very
>clearly
>> in another mail, was that the G400/G450 is old technology which is
>irrelevant to
>> what they are busy working on. He never ever hyped the G400/450 - he only
>might
>> have used them as examples of Matrox's pedigree of manufacturing and
>design.
>>
>
>The G550 is rumoured to be only a small improvement over the G450, with some
>basic DirectX 8 features and a sad 64-bit DDR bus.
>
>
>> Amiga are basing their "strategic partnership" with Matrox on their new
>chips
>> and designs that have not come out yet - and therefore, have not been seen
>by
>> anyone except under NDA's.
>
>But it isn't very promising that Matrox consistently have released products
>late(if at all) and the fact that Matrox representatives have said in
>several interviews that they concentrate on developing chips for business
>machines.
>
>
>> Those are the Matrox products to be concerned with, so it's pointless
>comparing
>> the G400 series with the Geforce series in this case.
>
>Relying on one supplier is not a good decision IMO. Just look at what
>happened in the Mac market. After Apple opened up for NVIDIA, ATI suddenly
>feeled compelled to release the Radeon for the Mac. Now they have the
>GeForce3.
>
>You can't close your eyer for competitive products just because Amiga have
>signed an agreement with Matrox. The fact is that Matrox isn't providing a
>competitive solution for people interested in playing 3D games ATM. And
>there are signs that say they won't do so for a while either. That worries
>me.
You are misunderstanding. We haven't closed our eyes to just one
manufacturer. With the market share the Amiga holds, no one else was
interested.
Once we get some market share going, this may change, but it doesn't mean
we should NOT have a good working relationship with Matrox as well.
Remember, the Amiga isn't JUST about games. One of the really impressive
arguments for Amiga in the past was that video professionals found
tremendous uses for the Amiga.
We want that video professional market as well as the games market.
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dedicated individuals can change the world. In fact,
this is the only thing that ever has.
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