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- From: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
- Subject: Re: So, should I buy an A540 now or wait for what's behind door #1?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.144413.22738@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:41:41 GMT
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- In article <JKH.92Aug12102812@sparc3.lotus.com>, jkh@sparc3.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard) writes...
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- >Now I could go down this week and have all this in my hot little hands
- >quickly enough, but I'm starting to wonder if this is such a good idea
- >with Acorn's next beastie rumored to be waiting in the wings. Even
- >with the A540's CPU slot upgrade, it won't help me much if Acorn comes
- >out with new video / sound hardware in the new machine as well. Also,
- >the cost of upgrading + original machine is always more expensive than
- >the whole new machine, so I'd feel pretty foolish if I bought a new
- >machine now only to have to look at upgrading in 6 months or less.
-
- Well, if any new machines appear, they'll probably appear at the Acorn User
- show in October, which is two months away. The A540 is currently top of the
- range, but doesn't have RISC-OS 3, as the A5000's do.
-
- Pete Goodwin
- goodwin@system.enet.dec.com
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