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- From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
- Subject: Re: 4000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.213149.28538@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <BuJBxn.J5r@news.udel.edu> <1992Sep13.215039.29476@hubcap.clemson.edu> <35072@cbmvax.commodore.com> <ERICJ.92Sep14101302@manila.cfsat.Honeywell.COM>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:31:49 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- ericj@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Eric Jacobsen) writes:
-
- >Consider the differences between the GEnie crowd and the internet crowd
- >and the difference in consensus between the GEnie crowd and the internet
- >crowd. Can we learn anything here?
-
- Hmm .. most INTERNET people aren't ones to sit around and pay an hourly
- fee to telecommunicate... :)
-
- >Something I *can* afford that is supposed to be a technology upgrade
- >(but is a reversal on the HD i/f and a total stagnation on the audio,
- >the two things that concern me most) and is priced above comparable
- >machines from other vendors is *definitely* overpriced.
-
- This was my point in my original post, which the C= guy misinterpreted.
- Where's that bang/buck ratio that C= used to be so famous for?
-
- >Consider a 486 machine with one of several advanced audio boards and
- >you have (IMHO) a heckuva lot better price/performance figure than
- >you do with what the A4000 looks to be.
-
- Right. Sad, in a way.
-
- >Soooo, unless you are the type who *has* to have the advanced Amiga
- >graphics (do you want to target your market that tightly) you are
- >probably a lot better off looking around first.
-
- For my upcoming work I also need an (at least) '386 bridgeboard, due to
- the lack of certain engineering packages on the Amiga. I'd *like* to
- buy a better Amiga and such a bridgeboard, but if C= doesn't start
- lowering the prices or actually *release a middle-of-the-road Amiga*
- (*NOT* the 3000, but something with AGA and upgradeable later on), I'll
- be forced to buy a clone instead.
-
- >I've been waiting a *long* time for an audio upgrade on the Amiga.
- >This should be an easy thing to do given the state of the art in
- >audio electronics and the current status of the Amiga's audio. If I
- >have to buy an add on card to do this it makes me consider other
- >machines that accept decent audio add on cards.
-
- Same here. I've owned Amigas since '87 and have been waiting for better
- audio since about '90.
-
- >This is not a flame. This is one of your customers responding.
-
- Same here.
-
- >* Eric Jacobsen Honeywell Inc. *
-
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