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- From: Gene_Ruebsamen@republik.fidonet.org (Gene Ruebsamen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 Custom Chips..
- Message-ID: <Gene_Ruebsamen.01iq@republik.fidonet.org>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 00:27:18 PST
- Organization: Eiffel Media of Orange County
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- > In article <Bz03zC.C51@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N.
- > Barrett) writes:
- > >
- > > Yeah, right. It would be VERY easy for Commodore to offer a
- > motherboard
- > >upgrade for A3000 systems, but they are not going to. Years ago,
- > Commodore
- > >could have offered motherboard upgrades for A1000 systems, but didn't
- > bother
- > >to do so then, either. Commodore has never offered a motherboard upgrade
- > for
- > >any Amiga. Why should they start with the A4000?
- > >
- > >---
- > >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- > >--------------------------------------------------
- >
- > While it might be easy for Commodore to offer a motherboard upgrade
- > for a given system I can see no way this could be done econimically.
- > Consider the following, in order for a motherboard swap to be economical
- > for Commodore, the new motherboard would have to be from a currently
- > mass produced product, then there would be no re-engineering costs
- > involved. Furthermore, this new board would have to have it's ports and
- > connectors in the same place as they were on the machine it's supposed
- > to swap into. Consider the 3000 and 4000. In order for a motherboard
- > swap to be economical for Commodore the 4000 motherboard would have
- > to have the same form factor as the motherboard for the 3000. The
- > mouse ports would have to be on the right side (instead of the left),
- > all the ports in the rear of the machine would have to be in the same
- > place, and the 4000 would need a scsi controller. Clearly this is not
- > the case. Finally, in order for your new computer to be protected by it's
- > 1-year warrenty and Commodore Direct service the swap would have to be
- > performed by an Authorized Commodore Dealer who would charge you $65 an
- > hour for the work. After you have bought the new board (you don't
- > expect the new board to be free do you?), what have you (the consumer)
- > saved?
- >
- > NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- >
- > So what's the big deal?
- > --George
- I hear Commodore plans a powerup deal early next year (Jan/Feb '93)
- they will allow you to give them the first page of your Amiga User Manual
- (you didnt throw it away or lose it, did you??), and you will get
- significantly reduced prices on a 4000 or 1200 system.. maybe even on
- the '030 or EC030 version of the 4000...
- I hear the powerup price of the 4000 '040 version is somthing like $2600
- I dont know if this is true or not, but it sounds good...
-
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