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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!jbono
- From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 4000
- References: <1992Sep13.150820.7338@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Message-ID: <jbono.03l6@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 22:31:10 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Sep13.150820.7338@hubcap.clemson.edu>,
- charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
- >JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Sep13.001509.5041@hubcap.clemson.edu>,
- >>charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) says:
- >
- >>>I'll believe it when I se, er hear it... :)
- >
- >>Probably said the same thing about the aa chipset, the 040 amiga, etc.
- >>They are here.
- >
- >But the sound card *isn't* here. And isn't it the AGA chipset? :)
- >
- >And the '040 4000 is overpriced as is. Will there be any "lesser" models
- >or a substantial educational discount for those of us who can't *afford*
- >to shell out almost 4 grand?
- >
- >(Only model I've heard of so far is the $3700 one with 6mb and a 120mb IDE)
- >
- >--
- >+ Rick __ + EMAIL:charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu + //\ + /|\ It's +
- >| /aylor | IRC : Tomalek / The Romulan | \X/--\miga 500 | J rainy |
- >+-------------+----------------------------------+----------------+--------- +
- >+"If you love her, she'll dump you faster than you can blink an eye..." #@?! +
- $3700 is cheap for an '040 machine! Compare the price with a quadra 900 or an
- HP workstation. Both have prices well over $7k, and at least in the case of
- the quadra, the Amiga will beat the pants off of it performance wise.
- Secondly, the $3700 retail price is much higher than the dealer quote I have,
- which is from Infotronics in Southbury, CT(it could be Woodbury, I'm not sure)
- which was $2995! This is cheaper than the A3000/25 when it came out. I
- believe the A4000 is not a high end Amiga, but the first midrange system in a
- series of AGA equipped systems, which will be both faster and slower than the
- A4000.
-
- John
-