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- From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: 1200/4000 pricing
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 02:08:34 GMT
- Organization: University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH
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- '>Yeah... I've been shopping for a PC for the past few days. Let me tell ya,
- '>there is a lot of junk out there. Many of the monitors that come with
- '>these systems are unbelievably fussy and many even have visible ghosting.
- '>Further, your still talking about a 486DX on an ISA 16-bit bus, 16-bit ram,
- '>a slow VGA card, and no sound. And you're also talking about 4 MB of
- '>ram which is a minimum with Widows. You're also talking about some no
- '>name brand. To get a good brand with a good monitor in a 486DX, you're
- '>looking at about $1800 to $2300 or so on an ISA bus with slow VGA card.
-
- Well, for just a little more you can get a GW 2000 33/486 local bus
- system with 250 meg HD, 8 meg ram, VESA local bus ATI ULTRA PRO graphics
- card. It sells for $2495. Add OS2 at $79, and Gravis Ultrasound for $140,
- and it's still a pretty good deal at $2700. At least this way you won't
- have to deal with a slow VGA card and the ISA bus for graphics.
-
- Greg Greene
- ggg@kepler.unh.edu
-
- '> NCW
-