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- From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 4000
- Message-ID: <35119@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 13:41:33 GMT
- References: <BuJBxn.J5r@news.udel.edu> <1992Sep13.215039.29476@hubcap.clemson.edu> <35072@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Sep14.133028.20904@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >Good. At least that ridiculous list price isn't hanging around.
-
- Could you please show me where the ridiculous price is?
-
- Let me see: $3699 for:
-
- A 68040 CPU (with built-in FPU) at 25MHz.
- (50MHz DX2 equiv in iNTEL 486 terms)
-
- 2 Megs of 32-bit CHIP RAM
-
- 4 Megs of 32-bit FAST RAM
-
- 120 Meg hard drive.
-
- A very fast 32-bit bus (Zorro-III is on par with 32-bit Microchannel
- and better than EISA)
-
- 8-bitplane, 24-bit colour video system with more video modes
- than you can shake a stick at. And it is "32-bit local bus"
- to use a term from other systems. And it has a graphics
- co-processor and a display-list processor. (Blitter & Copper)
-
- Parallel, Serial, Audio, Mouse, Joystick (and keyboard) ports...
-
- I say, that sounds like a rather good price to me. If you don't believe me,
- look around at IBM Clones or Macs with the same specs. (Note that 32-bit
- bus and 68040, so the Macs are called Quadra and the IBM machines would need
- to have Microchannel to be fair or EISA to be not as good...)
-
- >I think I speak for more than one Amiga user when I say that before I plunk
- >down >$3000 (I'd need a new monitor too, since the 1080 won't cut the new
- >video modes)
-
- Well, you don't *need* a new monitor, you just don't get the non-interlaced
- x400 modes. The more colours and speed are still available to the 1080.
-
- Oh, and there is *no way* to make a 1080 do non-interlaced VGA resolution.
- It can not sync to those scan rates...
-
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