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- From: rross@axelon.UUCP (Raymond Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200
- Message-ID: <rross.004n@axelon.UUCP>
- Date: 10 Dec 92 07:21:55 GMT
- References: <dac.066w@dacami.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Superboard Two BBS
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- > Srchasm mode off; For $1399, I can get a 486sx 25mhz, 4 megs of RAM, 100
- >meg hard drive, 1024x768x256 accelerated graphics, 1024x768 non-interlaced
- >SVGA monitor, 3.5" HD and 5.25" HD drives, Windows 3.1 (ick), MS Works,
- >mouse, and DOS5. It has five drive bays (two free), and six slots. (four
- >free.) It also has 2 serial ports and a parallel port and a game port.
- >Serial ports that can handle 38,400 without bogging the machine down
- >incredibly. I have heard there are problems with multitasking and serial
- >I/O with Windows; I've never tried it myself. The accelerated graphics card
- >will do 10,000 winmarks (10 million pixels a second, I think.) The graphics
- >are better than a 1200's, I don't know if they're faster.
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- But this-- Clone-thing-- has no sound, or do you feel that beeps and buzzes
- are sufficient enough for your clone-thing needs? Better add $100 to that
- famous price of yours (unless you've found a way to squeeze that junkie speaker
- into making a decent buzzing sound...) And yes, you are right-- Windows sucks
- at multitasking and until you can get Windows NT (for a whopping $500 dollars
- but you wont' pay for it becuase you are obviously after the cheap stuff and
- with it you may have some decent multitasking in your clone thing.) As far as
- graphics, I wouldn't bet that your clone-thing has better graphics and yes, the
- Amiga will be faster-- MUCH faster-- no matter how many pixels your clone thing
- has.
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- >
- > Figure $800 for a 1200 with a 50 meg HD. How much would a monitor that
- >can handle all the graphics modes cost?? My Mitsubishi cost $500. So
- >that's $1400 there for 1/2 the hard drive storage, 1/2 the memory, and 1/5
- >the processing power. The 68020 is about a '386 16MhZ; a 486sx will run
- >rings around a 386-40.
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- Since when does $800 + 500 equal $1400? I think you need a math
- coprocessor... :) Yes, 1/2 the storage, but it should be able to hook into
- larger hard disks soon so you lost on that one too. 1/2 the memory-- you
- forget (or maybe you don't know) that Amiga's don't need as much memory as a
- hog clone-thing does to run it's GUI. 1 meg is sufficient for most
- applications. 2 Megs is fine. 4 or more can be a surplus, unless you are
- doing real-stuff that takes thousands to do on a clone-thing. To compare the
- Amiga to the clone in the first place is like comparing apples to oranges-- the
- Amiga is like a team (coprocessed custom chips) while the clone thing is one
- fast player trying to do all the work. The team is much quicker, and for that
- reason a 7 mhz Amiga can appear to be faster than clone-things that are rated
- at 33 mhz. It may not be able to push a spreadsheet as fast, but a 7 mhz Amiga
- sure can push graphics and in that arena the Amiga runs rings around a
- clone-thing any day.
-
- Sorry that I referenced a clone as a clone-thing-- you never mentioned where
- you are going to get this famous $1399 price so based on that, I am assuming
- that the brand name of your clone thing is probably "Made in Tawain" and it
- will come with a manual written under some nasty attempt to produce English.
-