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- From: BC@cup.portal.com (Robert David Comer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Re: 4000
- Message-ID: <65885@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 22:55:43 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <BuJBxn.J5r@news.udel.edu>
- <1992Sep13.215039.29476@hubcap.clemson.edu><35072@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- <ERICJ.92Sep14101302@manila.cfsat.Honeywell.COM>
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- Got to jump in!
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- >In article <35072@cbmvax.commodore.com> bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson
- >- Amiga Networking) writes:
- >
- > Word on GEnie (from folks at the WOC show) is that Creative Computers is
- > taking orders at $2900.
- >
- > ANYTHING that you can't afford is "overpriced". The consensus on GEnie
- > seems to be that folks are surprised that it's so _IN_expensive for what yo
- u
- > get.
- >
- > Brian
- > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
- > Brian Jackson Amiga Networking Group, Commodore-Amiga Inc.
- > bj@cbmvax.commodore.com
- >
- >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?
- >
- >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,
-
- Could it be, that the reason they put in IDE is because they wanted to appeal t
- o the clone
- crowd? Makes some sense to me! (I like SCSI however!)
-
- >the two things that concern me most) and is priced above comparable
- >machines from other vendors is *definitely* overpriced.
-
- I can't afford an A4000, and I'm very suprised that the cost is so low, look at
- the '040
- competition, and the A4000 is better than most of those! (p.s. name a comparabl
- e
- machine priced less --- '486's don't do it!)
-
- I wish Comm. would make a lower cost, 32 bit wide, AGA chip equipped machine, t
- hat's the
- machine I would buy!
-
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Why? The Amiga has decent audio cards, and look what else you get!
- But then again I don't need any better audio (yet).
-
- >
- >This is not a flame. This is one of your customers responding.
- >
- This is not a flame either, just trying to understand!
- Also, one of there customers...
-
- >
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- Bob Comer
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