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- From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
- Subject: Re: 1200/4000 pricing
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- In article <1hr0b2INNb7c@mozz.unh.edu> ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
-
- >
- > 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
-
- Yeah... I've been looking at a Flex 486DX on a VESA bus for about $2000.
- But honestly, why do I need all that power in a PC? I am an engineer and
- will probably want to learn AutoCad but won't do any real work at home
- with it. Most of the other Apps I'm interested in either don't require
- a lot of CPU or are better on the Amiga. I need a PC to run Primavera
- for example, but a 386sx would work for that.
-
- And I believe that Amiga and CD-ROM are going to have a beautiful
- relationship as where the multimedia stuff I've seen on the PC suck.
- And Windows NT will be hitting the market soon so I can count on throwing
- Windows 3.1 out the "window" in a few months and can probably plan on
- needing a 2 or 3 hundred MB hard drive. And if I have a hard drive that
- big, then I better get a tape backup and I will probably need another
- 4 megs of ram for NT and maybe much more for other Apps. And I can't
- emulate Mac on the 486 so I can plan on replacing all this top-drawer
- Mac DTP software I have with some Windows equivalent. And in my field,
- Macs are quite commom and there is a chance I will need to run Mac
- software rather than PC.
-
- And then there is video. As soon as I can afford to, I'd like to get
- a camcorder and play around with video. And I may even be able to make
- money on the side with it in Construction Egineering which is my field.
- ...but I would at least like to mess around with it. ...you know, take
- a camcorder back-packing or skiing and then make a little scenery video
- with music and special effects. ...give my left brain a little work-out.
- (...something Marc Barrett needs to do!)
-
- Geese... and I'll bet the new AGA games, flight simulators, entertainment,
- and multimedia software are going to be killer. Amiga and PC are going
- to be parting ways, big time. The VESA local bus... fast VGA... what
- are they good for? They are new and it will not be like AGA where
- there is a standard base machine for games/entertainment software to
- be written for. ...24-bit gfx, what are you going to do with it on the
- PC? 24-bit files are huge. Are you going to JPEG everything and defeat
- you higher resolution advantage? I think HAM8 has tremedous advanates
- over 24-bit. ...and it is built into the *all* new base machines so that
- all kinds of software will use it.
-
- I have to get a PC, but I'm uneasy about it even with a $2000 486DX. I
- think what I might to is just buy the cheapest used 386sx clone I can
- find and then take a wait and see. I just really don't need a 486. I'd
- like to see the CD-ROM Amigas and the Quad Sync monitors which I hope
- have composit input.
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- NCW
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