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- From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: New Acorn Kit out today (27/08/92)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.095612.3481@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 09:56:12 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.105342.25467@cs.hw.ac.uk> <10380@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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- In article <10380@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> sproven@cs.strath.ac.uk (Simon B Proven IE91) writes:
- >
- >> RISCOS 3.1 FINALLY. START THE PARTY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- >> (bet there will be massive delays supplying though !!)
- >
- >And what about the price! #49 for the lot is another bargain (that price
- >will stay till mid-1993)
-
- I suppose after all the hassle over RISCOS 3 this upgrade is being done at
- cost, or minimal profit. Or I would hope anyway.
-
- Gold Star to Acorn.
-
- >> All in all this seems like a reasonable shot in the arm. Still
- >> a touch expensive compared to the competition (esp the A4000 which
- >> is close to the A5000).
- >
- >Well... they have reduced the A5000 by #100 and doubled the hard disk size,
- >so that's an improvement. As for comparing with the Amiga 600, the 600
- >doesn't have *anything* like the CPU speed of the A3010.
-
- That wasn't in the article. Acorn reducing the price of a machine. pinch,
- pinch. Yup, it's real. Last time this happened the MD (Brian Long) got an
- Italian boot up the arse.
-
- >> Now we know why Acorn were desperate to shit the A3000's over the
- >> summer with the tacky special offer.
- >
- >It's their right to stay afloat - would you rather they went under due to
- >a few thousand unsold computers in a warehouse?
- >
-
- Acorn always do this though (or marketing does).
-
- People who bought a B+128 days before the Master was wheeled out.......
-
- Buy and A3000 with colour monitor now and get free RISCOS 3.1 when it comes out
- for ~700 UKpounds (educ price ??) it's a REALLY good deal. 2 months later,
- out pop 2 better spec'd A30x0 machines at a cheaper price with RISCOS 3.1
- anyway.
-
- If that was me, I'd be fairly pissed off. As would recent A5000 buyers when
- they hear of the #100 UKpounds reduction (not before time and not enough
- of a price cut, though in the right direction).
-
- Neil
-
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